I recently co-founded Lombiq Technologies Ltd., a company focusing on Orchard services. One of our first products is Orchard Dojo: it's a website about Orchard trainings and self-taught learning. The whole content of Orchard Dojo is organized in an Associativy graph (and no other form of categorization or tagging is used), the Orchard Dojo Graph. We're currently using it just for displaying related contents but interesting other uses will come in the future. more

There was a short demo of the latest state of Associativy on the Orchard Community Meeting. What you can see will be part of the upcoming release and is already available for testing in the source code. There is a new branch called 1.7 too. It contains some code that works only with the latest source (building up the upcoming v1.7) of Orchard, taking advantage of the new feature of being able to have multiple search indices.

In short, there are many improvements what you can already see and … more

Today Associativy was featured on the Web Intelligence session of the Natural Language Processing Meetup Group Budapest with a presentation given by me (Zoltán Lehóczky). Many bright people gathered, so it was a great experience and a nice opportunity for Associativy: it seems that we'll keep in touch with multiple teams as we see ways of collaboration. more

Ad-hoc graphs, i.e. graphs that are simply creatable from the admin UI are not meant for storing anything of serious size. For that you really should implement your own graph provider what's not really complex. The upcoming release of Associativy will feature much better ad-hoc graph support (remember: automatically generated tag graphs are ad-hoc graphs too!) but the migration is not very easy. To keep things simple please don't create more than one ad-hoc graph for now. Migration will only be … more

Associativy modules, although published, weren't really released till now, but now they're on the Orchard Gallery! So it's possible to install them from the Orchard dashboard conveniently, not just by downloading or cloning the source from the project websites. (Be aware that Associativy Administration is not yet on the Gallery, because the upload gives an "access denied" error every time... If you want to install it from a nupgk, download it from here.) more

Associativy.com was finally updated to Orchard 1.6 today. This should give some performance improvements among others, not to mention that Associativy.com now also uses the latest Associativy sources. more

All the Associativy modules' project files were updated to the Visual Studio 2012 project file format (don't worry if you're using 2010 still: it's backwards compatible).

Also the main Associativy dev solution was updated to Orchard 1.6 (or even to a younger changeset fixing dynamic compilation).

All in all everything is now latest and greatest :-). more

Recently there were some important updates to the Associativy modules and now these changes are deployed to Associativy.com. Among others in-memory graphs are now stored in the cache, the JIT frontend engine got a bit better (check it out e.g. on the tag graph of Associativy.com blog posts) and code quality much higher (not to mention Neo4j support, but it's not used on Associativy.com yet).

You can always follow source code changes on the Associativy project site. more