Posted by skelter
Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:44:00 GMT
Steve,
We spoke at the NFJS symposium this past weekend and you had expressed
interest in ROC. Here are some links to ROC and NetKernel:
I am sure you had a great time this past weekend but I bet you are glad
to be back in Texas holding your newborn ;)
Jeremy Deane
Technical Architect
Collaborative Consulting
Thank you, Jeremy!
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Posted by skelter
Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:35:00 GMT
The search mechanism in our wiki at work stinks, so I’ve been playing with nutch. I dropped it’s war into tomcat and set up the nutch-site.xml as described in the wiki, but ran into this:
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: /search.jsp(151,22) Attribute value language + "/include/header.html" is quoted with " which must be escaped when used within the value
I wonder if this is tomcat6 specific. I fixed it by putting in \ before the quotes at line 151 of search.jsp:
<jsp:include page="<%= language + \"/include/header.html\"%>"/>
Wow. I dread that this is a warning of issues to come for our migration.
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Posted by skelter
Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:34:00 GMT
We have a java program (java 5 VM) that we are starting up with
-Xmx1500m. Occasionally, if the machine has been running for several
days, java will fail to start with a message along the lines of “cannot
start VM, unable to allocate heap”. This is on a Windows XP machine. If
I reboot the machine, the process starts without problems. If I look at
free memory using sysinterals process explorer, in both cases I see
sufficient available physical memory to satisfy the request, so I
suspect that the problem is that the Windows memory space has become
fragmented.
Do you have any suggestions for ways that I can
1) confirm that suspicion and/or
2) solve the problem without rebooting the machine on some regular
basis?
Have you heard other reports of this?
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Posted by skelter
Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:33:00 GMT
Also see slides, NFJS NESS 2008
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Posted by skelter
Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:59:00 GMT
Also see slides from NoFluff/JustStuff Boston NESS 2008.
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Posted by skelter
Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:23:00 GMT
http://www.ageofautism.com/2008/09/obama-i-am-not.html
wow. Never thought I would be a one-issue voter, but this nailed it. I now have no choice but to vote for McCain and Palin. I hope they are enough of a change that they can un-do the damage to the Justice system done by Bush.
http://www.ageofautism.com/2008/09/hey-obama-what.html
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Posted by skelter
Mon, 08 Sep 2008 03:51:00 GMT
I was real happy that Chrome’s V8 Javascript engine sped up MonkeyGTD. But, I ran into a problem: the security does not let it save to disk.
The memory usage is interesting:
I suspect that is my abuse of MonkeyGTD.
Other than that, I’m really likin’ Chrome. Been an interesting experience. I need a Linux version of Chrome that has something like Ubiquity.
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Posted by skelter
Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:42:00 GMT
I’m on vacation…welllll…I’m home helping take care of the new baby and sick boy this week.
I’m googlin’ and reading my O’Reilly JBoss at Work as well as an EJB 3.0 book borrowed from a co-worker. I had iTunes playing A.boy’s “Sleep” play-list with the visualizer on, and that kept him in bed until the Pavlovian response put him to sleep. He woke for a bit when I waived a juice bottle in front of him, viciously attached to it, so at least his fluid intake is not zero.
I couldn’t take any more “sleepytime” so now I’ve got disk IV from the Zeppelin box set playing.
Read about Google’s Chrome and it sounds pretty neat. More back story here. I’m hoping Firefox and Chrome boost each other. Microsoft’s (spit!) Internet Exploder (hock-spit!) version 8 supposedly also breaks browser tabs into processes for better resiliency. With the exception of the consulting laptop, none of my computers run software from the oppressive monopoly. I’m really looking forward to Chrome and hope it will integrate well with Ubiquity, Twitter, Delicious and of course Google apps.
Chrome is definitely snappy.
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Posted by skelter
Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:59:00 GMT
From the tutorial, I’ve pieced together a script for Ubiquity that starts an lj entry with the selected text. I’m sure it could be improved upon easily.
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Posted by skelter
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:00:00 GMT
I need another project like a hole in the head.
Scott Davis had mentioned NetKernel in his RESTful talk. Then, I ran across the “shared libraries vs. statically linked libraries” debate with mentioned plan9. I’ve run across plan9 before.
NetKernel is a framework which seems to treat the key internals of your application as network resources, each identifiable with a URI. Where it can really start to pay off is in the caching. It is intriguing and I think about it whenever Clark mention he is working on XYZ on the map server.
plan9 is a research platform out of AT&T labs, the birth place of UNIX and many of the concepts in Linux. plan9 has some strange but intriguing approaches to solving computing problems.
I’m in a lull on the Performance and Reliability project. If I can find my next course of action while our instrumentation efforts cook up some data, I can get back on track.
Must not get sucked into any more strange research projects.
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