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It really gave me a great overview and helped me make a more clear decision to leave and start my own company.
We released a dropbox-like product to sync and the back-end is on EBS. Yesterday we saw two times when a device got filled to 7GB and as it got closer it became slower and slower and slower. We did not have any instrumentation/monitoring in place and we were immediately suspect it was something on our end.
We (wrongly?) assumed reliability and (decent) performance from AWS.
It is in fact atrocious, for a mainstream piece of software. Many of us gave them feedback that the new client is WAY too generous with the space, at least for us with more than 5 contacts online. They did very little from the beta to the general release.
Hmm! With a staff of 11 FTE developers ... you would think they would put more weight on this aspect of the transition. But yeah, other priorities take over.
It's been predicted that there is a new wave of devices with enhanced saturation (there is a name for it - I forget), so this will only grow in importance!
I have two monitors from different brands. Even capturing a screenshot in them yields colors that are not quite the same (maybe due to one of them being slightly aging and being calibrated?).
Any good intro on this area?
OT, but I pictured him in a deserted island with big LCD monitors in the walls of the hut running kool screensvers!
OK, back on topic - I find the iPad a bit tiring to be held reading a book. My hands need rest from typing when I am not at my desk!
It's eady to drop and also calls home all the time, which I do not enjoy. It feels like every app is watching you.
Overall, it's a good device though. I hope for others that are much more open, soon!
What is the best HTML 5 framework so far? I saw sencha's, webkit and a couple of others here and there.
Any recommendations?
Look for projects that make it easy to contribute and have reasonable documentation.
Being always on the lookout for great people, I'll toss our project contributor's page here to see if you are interested (hehe) and show what I mean http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Contribute :)
The issue is that Roambi (strangely) can simulate and such in flash, but only output to iphone/ipad. Granted, it's a gorgeus interface.
Now, I may be a bit old fashioned, but handing our database out is something that makes me very nervous and opens us up for liabilities if something were to happen.
So tempting, though ...
One possible idea would be to somehow derive a cooked version of our DB and use that. Not sure how to do it nicely.
Another option is to somehow license this as a gem or something?
This is exactly what we need for many needs and perhaps all needs if you actually managed to abstract all the needs in a general way.
50% of something is more than 100% of zero, you know.
Not surprising it failed if you ask me, given the attitude.
Not to say 50% is not brutal or anything for a contract.
Github hiccuping on me. Some of the code is not showing in github e.g. http://github.com/brianmario/escape_utils/blob/master/lib/es...
Cloning works, tho.
I wonder how much of this article is actually just bashing or has merit as Apple trying to push something "open" with clear self-interest thinly veiled?
One was a higher end all-in-one and it eventually acted up as if the firmware actually failed on purpose (acting somewhat erratically!).
The other one failed, out of the blue, with some mechanical gears issue. Their phone line recognized quickly the issue ("jumped super quick to conclusions," I'd say) and said it was not covered. They would ship me a new one fast and cheap!
After seeing how fast the ink went, we did buy ink and refilled them. It was not too hard, though it was a hassle.
Needless to say, now we're going for some other brand!
How to make people more "productive" by essentially finance them to a small bump in their qualifications.
Very very predatory (at least for me, coming from a top school)!
I think oDesk encourages ripoffs.
From their home page: Christine, Independent contractor, Enjoys automatic, guaranteed payment"
It helps them, at the risk of alienating the people who pay.
Wonder if that will last.
I for one went to Elance just to try!
Any experiences on how to manage things more tightly?
I was able to cut the bleeding early, but it could have been 5 times more if I were a bit more forgiving, sadly.
"Error establishing a database connection"
We have been using Sinatra for our installer at Amahi (http://www.amahi.org) and it has performed well with a couple of caveats.
1) Things can get messy quickly if one is not careful to impose and keep on having structure. It's hard to read what's going on very easily.
2) They released 0.9.5 which produced crashes in ruby (!) and this bit us hard. This is really a bit of a ding on how gems are packaged and distributed. We tried to package is as an RPM (Amahi is Fedora-based) and it was harder than other (bigger) gems due to some things we could not figure out quick enough. I really like it, however, the community did not really help much in getting to the bottom of this, probably because it's still a bit small, I guess. No question that it will grow. :)
3) (ok more than a couple, though this one may not be a Sinatra issue). We rely on periodic http calls to get our installer progress shown on the browser (via jQuery). Some times one http call breaks (to localhost no network involved!) and we have not been able to figure out why. We believe we have mostly eliminated jQuery, leaving Sinatra as the main suspect. Maybe we have another bug in there we're hitting? It's not too repeatable, sadly.
Congrats on the 1.0 release!!
I started to look at the WMT crawl info and there were a bunch of network unreachable errors.
Here is what happened: our site being PR6/7, we started getting a lot of scans for exploits. Some of them over and over. A few months ago I wrote a rule-based procedure to automatically block these IPs at the firewall level.
Well, someone had tricked Googlebot into searching our site by using a "break in" URL, so Googlebot fell trap to that and got blocked.
Interestingly, most of the access to our site from Google were from one IP and it was blocked for a little while.
In the end, since the "admin" site was a copy of the main site, it effectively acted as the backup!
We've taken steps in the rules to not block Googlebot :)
Imagine if someone gets all our pages and puts them somewhere else. Even without links to them, they could take over us.
Thanks for the idea of the robots.txt. Since the admin site is really for testing and eventually released, it's some work to make the robots.txt dynamic. May do it soon just to make sure.
This allows distractions from other stuff to vanish for a while.
Also, I don't check the email as often ... productivity^2