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Re: Why MemCache Makes Me Want To Spoon Out My Own Eyes

jauderho — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:28:37 -0000

Have you seen the post by Tobias (from Shopify)? Essentially, he advocates versioning the fragments and letting the older fragments fall out of memcache.

See http://blog.leetsoft.com/2007/5/22/the-secret-t...

Re: Improving Magento Performance

jauderho — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:33:44 -0000

Not currently but that is an option.

Re: Flickr rolling out new search? I just noticed... - Jauder Ho - links and things

jauderho — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:42:14 -0000

After more testing, selecting medium images (my current favorite) allows you to favorite images right from the search page, much to my delight. I think this will make Flickr image discovery that much better.

Now if Flickr will allow you to add a comment from the same interface, that would be fantastic.

Re: Does Anyone Use Chrome?

jauderho — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:21:54 -0000

It is if you are willing to live on the edge. Some versions may not work very well but the one I am using works like a champ.

There's no Flash support right now but I can always hop back to FF for that. Chrome works very nicely as a second browser.

Get it here. http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/ch...

Re: You Won't See The Palm Pre On Me

jauderho — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:36:05 -0000

FWIW, I put down some first impressions and notes. http://bit.ly/iIWnP

Might help you decide. Personally, I held off the iPhone due to the lack of a keyboard and I've been a Treo user for many years and IMO this is a good attempt. There are obviously some rough edges and it remains to be seen how quickly they will iterate to fix things that come up. I think that will be key as well as the App Catalog in the long run.

Re: You Won't See The Palm Pre On Me

jauderho — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:08:19 -0000

There is going to be a GSM version. At the very least there is a prototype running around.

See http://blog.treonauts.com/2009/02/palm-pre-gsm-...

Re: My Jaunty Adventure

jauderho — Fri, 15 May 2009 11:01:14 -0000

At this point, I think I prefer using a Mac as a front end and sshing to a Linux box. Best of both worlds. Still on Hardy though since all the Linux boxes are servers.

Re: Magento Javascript Loading Bug

jauderho — Sun, 03 May 2009 06:30:22 -0000

I agree.

I would be happy if they even just open up the tree more. I was trying to get Varien to host the repo on github but they were lukewarm on the idea.

Part of the problem is the strange way they do svn, I can't seem to get git-svn to switch from the 1.2 to 1.3 branch without freaking out. Maybe you know how to do this.

I'll probably just refresh the tree at some point and publish the diff again.

Re: Compiling Drizzle on Ubuntu

jauderho — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 05:17:16 -0000

Yes, you have to add the proto buffers package from the developers PPA as well as libdrizzle. I have updated the post to reflect the link.

I did the install on 8.04 (Hardy) and the default libevent is 1.3e so it needed to be updated.

Re: sample varnish config - Fun Links And Things - FLAT

jauderho — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:03:30 -0000

You have to specify the page to be cached. By default, varnish does not cache any pages with a cookie.

The solution will vary depending on your setup.

Re: bit.ly blog - Registered Applications And Better Click Referrer...

jauderho — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:45:35 -0000

Good idea! It would be nice to see twhirl support this too.

BTW, you have twhirl misspelled as "Twirhl" under the "Referrers -> Email Clients, IM, AIR Apps, and Direct" tab.

Re: Why not LDAP?

jauderho — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:13:31 -0000

What kind of traffic are you seeing on your DS?

I've been a longtime fan of LDAP and have done several deployments. It is interesting to me that none of the web20 companies have used LDAP (that I know of) as part of their architecture.

Imagine, sharding information could easily be kept in the DS (amongst other things) and on a well tested infrastructure.

Re: Twitter is Testing Search Saved Searches on Twitter.com

jauderho — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:07:45 -0000

That's interesting. I have the Trending topics in the sidebase but no saved searches (My search box shows up in the same location).

Re: git ready » pull with rebase

jauderho — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:50:29 -0000

Actually, I would love to know in more detail (cmds pls) how you create a tracking branch in this case.

Re: Improving Magento Performance

jauderho — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 08:10:02 -0000

See Yahoo's best practices for speeding up web sites.

http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html

They talk in good detail about how to set the Expires header. I believe that particular server is a VPS.

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/03/seesmic-launches-first-desktop-client.html

jauderho — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 05:51:09 -0000

I like it because I can now see status updates from people that have FB accounts and not necessarily Twitter etc. accounts without having to log into Facebook.

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/03/topify-enhances-twitter-following.html

jauderho — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 22:13:56 -0000

Ouriel,

My feedback was that there does not seem to be a way to log back in after you sign up. Nor is there a way to delete an account, which is important since you are holding on to a user's twitter password (OAuth can't get here soon enough).

So far it seems to work nicely. Do you have any stats about the lag between a direct signup message and one redirected by Topify?

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/03/topify-enhances-twitter-following.html

jauderho — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 03:05:46 -0000

Ouriel,

There seems to be no way to opt out after you sign up, should one decide not to use the service.

Re: How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data - Bret Taylor's blog

jauderho — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:04:54 -0000

I would be interested in seeing what your results are if you do test it out. But it sounded like a possible fit to me as soon as you mentioned your requirements.

Have you spoken to Ari Zilka re TerraCotta? It might be possible to build something thin that sits on top of TC if you are already using it.

Re: How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data - Bret Taylor's blog

jauderho — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:01:51 -0000

I was looking in the context of user lookups and not as a db replacement but then you run into the problem of having 2 sources to go to. Tradeoffs tradeoffs...

Re: How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data - Bret Taylor's blog

jauderho — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:13:44 -0000

The answer is YMMV. The best way is to test all 3 with your app and pick whatever works the best.

I've been working on Magento (www.magentocommerce.com) over the last couple of days and it appears that XCache and APC return about the same level of performance. Surprisingly, memcache does not improve performance in this case but I am sure this is more a reflection on how the app works and not memcache itself. Unfortunately, it looks like this is just a really slow app for now (so slow it makes Rails look like a rocket).

PS. Magento uses Zend under the hood so that may be a factor.

Re: How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data - Bret Taylor's blog

jauderho — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:58:56 -0000

Well, what it really boils down to is the classic argument of build vs. buy. A lot of organizations do not have the programming skillset nor the time to implement non-commercial solutions (mostly because it is viewed as an operational expense rather than a revenue generation source).

So when there is say a hypothetical product that cost $25k that nets millions in ROI and can be rolled out in a month or two, that's what would tend to be used.

That is not to say there is no role or use for MySQL and friends. Free goes a very long way when you are bootstrapped. It all depends on the use case and organization.

Re: How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data - Bret Taylor's blog

jauderho — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:30:38 -0000

Cool. Thanks!

Re: How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data - Bret Taylor's blog

jauderho — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:16:43 -0000

Bret, what are you using for the graphs?

Re: How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data - Bret Taylor's blog

jauderho — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:12:47 -0000

Jud, how about something like Prevayler for your needs?