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« Reply To This #60 on: March 07, 2010, 10:41:28 AM » |
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Yay, Paul  Thanks, I can see both sides of the screen now  I just love the speed of these searches Thanks ! -jan- |
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"The place God calls you to is the place where your deepest gladness and the world's deepest hunger meet" - Fredrick Buechner (in Wishful Thinking). "Every child should be well born, well fed, well taught, well housed and well treated." Maude Riley, Alberta Council on Child and Family Welfare 1923 "Each of us feels that we are just a drop in the ocean, but the ocean would be less without that missing drop." --Mother Teresa 1 click per person per day on this link means 1 additional cent for the Fistula Foundation - thanks! |
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« Reply To This #61 on: March 07, 2010, 12:10:49 PM » |
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Knowing absolutely nothing about computers and how they work... I don't expect an answer that I can understand to this question but if this kivabank works so fast using Kiva's own data... why, oh why, is the Kiva site so darn slow and 'unsearchable'  I mean, darn it all, I even have to remember to right click to open another tab when I'm on Kiva. just grouchy... -jan- and why does the r and the n run together in darn so it looks like I'm swearing ? |
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"The place God calls you to is the place where your deepest gladness and the world's deepest hunger meet" - Fredrick Buechner (in Wishful Thinking). "Every child should be well born, well fed, well taught, well housed and well treated." Maude Riley, Alberta Council on Child and Family Welfare 1923 "Each of us feels that we are just a drop in the ocean, but the ocean would be less without that missing drop." --Mother Teresa 1 click per person per day on this link means 1 additional cent for the Fistula Foundation - thanks! |
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« Reply To This #62 on: March 07, 2010, 04:24:12 PM » |
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Knowing absolutely nothing about computers and how they work... I don't expect an answer that I can understand to this question but if this kivabank works so fast using Kiva's own data... why, oh why, is the Kiva site so darn slow and 'unsearchable' The difference in speed comes from where the search is being performed. With kiva's site, you enter your criteria, your browser sends it to the kiva servers where it searches and then builds a page and sends that back and your browser displays it and all of those steps take time. Many times the same data gets retransmitted every time you alter your search. kivabank works differently, it pre-loads all the fundraising loans into your browser so that when you type keywords or change the other criteria, it is performing the search on the data already on your computer without having to go through the whole process of talking to a server every time you want to adjust the search. This not only removes the burden from the server of having to perform all the searches for everyone, but since it's all just done on your computer, the searches are much faster. I chose to write the application using Silverlight because of how easy it makes this method. I'm glad you like it! And thank you Laurie for your compliments as well!  |
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Search loans by keywords, risk, currency exchange, default, delinquency, partner rating, profitability and full repayment date KivaBank. Also do Lender Analysis, and set up email alerts and RSS feeds! |
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« Reply To This #63 on: March 08, 2010, 06:07:29 AM » |
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Paul, I love this application. Is there any plan for the keyword search to include the loan description? Example, widow, single mother, that would not be found other than in the full description...?
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nuclearspike
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« Reply To This #64 on: March 08, 2010, 02:12:17 PM » |
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Paul, I love this application. Is there any plan for the keyword search to include the loan description? Example, widow, single mother, that would not be found other than in the full description...?
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Charmaine, I'm glad you love the app! As for searching the full descriptions... I do like the idea and have some solutions that would work. Currently, the app doesn't get the description until the user clicks on the loan so there's an issue of not having the data present to be able to search on it. I have some solutions and will look into this. Paul |
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« Reply To This #65 on: March 08, 2010, 03:05:02 PM » |
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Hi Paul, So, speaking of searches...  Can the search tool handle various forms of...  Search for (Cats AND Dogs) OR (Fish AND Chips) BUTNOT (Burgers AND Fries)   But seriously, the OR and NOT capabilities certainly would beef up the search function. |
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nuclearspike
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« Reply To This #66 on: March 08, 2010, 03:58:45 PM » |
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Richard, I'm considering having an advanced keyword mode that would give more options where -- rather than having one keyword box that searches all fields (like now) -- it would have one for partner, country, activity, etc and 3 columns "Must contain all", "contain at least one of these" and "Does not contain". It would be set up as a grid: | **Must Contain All (AND) | **At least one (OR) | **Does not contain (NOT) | | Partner | | | | | Country | | Peru Bolivia Ecuador | | | Activity | | | | | Sector | Retail | | | | Use | | | clothing |
This wouldn't happen until after I implement "saved filters" though. Then you could just flip between your saved filters without having to fill it out each time. |
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« Reply To This #67 on: March 08, 2010, 04:07:47 PM » |
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Cool, Paul, thanks!!! by the way, Judy... I assumed, "Search for (Cats AND Dogs) OR (Fish AND Chips) BUTNOT (Burgers AND Fries)" would find at least two different types of business activities!!!   |
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« Reply To This #68 on: March 08, 2010, 04:17:25 PM » |
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I assumed, "Search for (Cats AND Dogs) OR (Fish AND Chips) BUTNOT (Burgers AND Fries)" would find at least two different types of business activities!!! Depends on the country.  |
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« Reply To This #69 on: March 08, 2010, 04:39:21 PM » |
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Depends on the country. That's why my assumption is "two OR more activities" AND why I want to do some fancy searchin!   |
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