I assume this is only interesting for a very limited crowd. Still, it is worth mentioning:
ImageMagick may behave as a complete (meaning 99%) CPU resource hog, if several convert processes are running at the same time, as described by several users in the forums.
What worked for me: disabling IM’s internal threading. Sounds weird, but apparently there are some issues (especially?/only?) on RHEL/CentOS machines.
Build with configure –disable-openmp, and several parallel processes did not stall the CPU any longer.
startups.yeebase.com features my interview on their landing page today.
After pondering for a while, I finished installing Piwik as our secondary web reporting / analytics tool.
I’m quite happy with Google Analytics so far, but the fact that you don’t own the data coming from your users on your website (along with some remarks from our lawyer about exporting usage data into the US being not the preferred solution, especially in Germany) was enough to start looking around for other solutions.
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I never got around giving Flex a serious try.
The most interesting features, like the Live Cycle Data Services, allowing server push-based RIAs, are very expensive, and I did not had the need for anything else that I could not handle using some simple (Y)UI thrown together and hooked into a DB using Grails.
Now, the current implementation of our Atlantis backend polls every n seconds from the server and new messages are added, via AJAX. This led to some browser stability problems and a general bottleneck if several AJAX-”windows” are opened and each of them refreshed every n seconds, respectively.
Affter some research, I stumbled across BlazeDS, which might solve this problem – another part of Adobe technology that was released open source, and should provide the basic functionality needed to access hibernated Java objects from Flex, plus allowing push subscriptions and notifications from the server to the client.
I will check out this tutorial about getting Flex, BlazeDS and Hibernate to work together.
Also, there is a great post about the differences of the various flavors and licensing details, as well as another one.
I will post my findings here.
OK, I admit it – I’ve been there before, a couple of times: Ordering something cool, just to let the initial sensation and motivation to actually do something cool with it quickly fade away…
The next chapter in this will (hopefully not) be this thing – introducing the DIY Meggy Jr RGB handheld:
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