Today Macrobyte will be releasing the next part of Conversant. It's called the AttSearchEngine, and it's responsible for indexing all the content that flows through Conversant, and for searching the indices that it creates.

I'm only mentioning it now, and here, because the AttSearchEngine is the first and only part of Conversant that is 100% written by me. It actually predates Conversant by a few months, though it's been completely rewritten since then.

This is, I'm proud to say, some of the cleanest, coolest code I've ever written. I'm immensely pleased with it.

Flip just told me that it's too bad I can't frame it and hang it on a wall. He said nobody would understand it. I responded, "Artists are never appreciated!" ;-)

(The AttSearchEngine has already been licensed for use in two other places, outside of Macrobyte and completely unrelated to any of our other products. How cool is that!?)

If you know of a significant site, page, tutorial, or tool (for Frontier or Radio) that isn't listed in the directory, please let me know with the form provided by the Open Directory Project.

If something in the directory seems to be in the wrong spot, please ignore it. I'm still shuffling things around a bit, trying to find the right combination of "stuff".

It's feeling weirder and weirder that Frontier is stuck in the languages category, but the higher-level editors have told me to tough it out for awhile until I'm completely sure where it belongs. Frontier is darn difficult to categorize (like Conversant)!

Searching on Google for some information on threading in Frontier (specifically, what does and does not trigger a context switch between script threads), I came across this beautiful gem written by Doug Baron in 1997. That letter will probably put a big smile on the faces of most Frontier scripters/programmers, especially those who have been around for a few years.

It didn't answer my question, of course, but there's no way Google could have known that.

I don't actually think I'm going to find the answer to this particular question on the web, but I haven't given up yet.

Okay, I was wrong. So shoot me. The AttSearchEngine wasn't released today.

It's not even today anymore, for that matter.

Maybe it will be released this today, since it wasn't released on the last today.

The Magic 8 Ball says, "Chances are good."

All of Macrobyte' sservers have been updated with the new Search Engine code, though. Does that count for anything?