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Re: Ask me anything

Nick Gerakines — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:06:07 -0000

What? Can you give me some context?

Re: Heroku | Celadon Cedar

Nick Gerakines — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 01:00:45 -0000

This is good.

Re: http://uniquehazards.tumblr.com/post/2377362882

Nick Gerakines — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 13:40:18 -0000

Nice article, I'm intrigued by the idea of donating to the LOC or Smithsonian. Delicious is still a product with a lot of potential.

Re: Finally a way to mark your Github project as abandoned - Jeff Kreeftmeijer

Nick Gerakines — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 20:44:19 -0000

This is great, thanks.

Re: http://ngerakines.tumblr.com/post/702427902

Nick Gerakines — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:14:06 -0000

I did end up putting it into the elephant graveyard. If you want, you can give me your email address and I'll tar/gz the latest rev and send it over.

Re: Ask me anything

Nick Gerakines — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 12:26:47 -0000

Thanks Mayer. I've answered this question with a post: http://blog.socklabs.com/po...

Re: http://jamesley.tumblr.com/post/774199001

Nick Gerakines — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:43:50 -0000

It's true. She needs a mbp.

Re: http://blog.socklabs.com/post/754555572

Nick Gerakines — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:39:50 -0000

This is so true.

Re: Creating priority-influenced jobs with Barbershop and Redis

Nick Gerakines — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:11:24 -0000

I've imported some of the 2008 posts, specifically the ones you mentioned. It'll take some effort to go through and import everything, so for the time being I'll do posts on request.

All of the older articles can be found in the old.articles directory of the blog's git repo too: http://github.com/ngerakine...

Re: Creating priority-influenced jobs with Barbershop and Redis

Nick Gerakines — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:44:47 -0000

Yes IF you had fixed priority ranges and if you don't want to be able to adjust the priority of a task once it has been set. With the system I described in the post, you can have variable range priorities and you can bump a task/job's priority once it has been put into the work queue.

I think having more than just low, medium and high priorities is key. You may have a set of tasks that is routinely low or medium priority but once you get above those then it's pretty common to have high priority tasks where some are more important than others.

Re: How I Made $6K With My eBook - macournoyer's blog

Nick Gerakines — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:35:52 -0000

This is what a lot of World of Warcraft gold farming, leveling and pvp/race/class guide writers do and it works really really well. Congrats!

Re: About Erlang Quicktips

Nick Gerakines — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:14:15 -0000

Thanks for letting me know. I've updated the site config and the feed links should resolve properly now.

Re: Creating string slugs

Nick Gerakines — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 03:01:59 -0000

Thanks for the feedback. It probably wouldn't be difficult to add a param to be the default separator to let users specify the '-' or '_' character for excluded characters. If you ever get around to cleaning up your version of this function then do let us know.

Re: Nick's Blog | Lets create some Erlang standards, part one

Nick Gerakines — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:35:19 -0000

Thanks for the heads up. I don't know how to fix the formatting bugs on planeterlang.org though.

Re: Embedded Applications with Yaws

Nick Gerakines — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:55:07 -0000

The beam files for the yawsapp module aren't being found. Did they compile correctly?

Re: Mochevent

Nick Gerakines — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:53:40 -0000

It's not that it's a limitation of any specific technology or framework, it's that using something like that is just unnecessary.

Re: Mochevent

Nick Gerakines — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:16:14 -0000

I'm not really sure if either of them make a good comparison. The mochevent application accepts incoming http requests, breaks them down into tuples, sends those tuples to a registered process on a remote Erlang node and waits for a response.

Re: Mochevent

Nick Gerakines — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:30:49 -0000

Because the point of this application is to avoid having Erlang handle socket build up and tear down and to be as light as possible. I started this with the http://github.com/ngerakine... project not too long ago and found that even then, what I really want is a dumb connection and request handler.

Re: What's been going on lately?

Nick Gerakines — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:19:33 -0000

How do you figure that? It's OTP compliant in the sense that it's return value can be given to a supervisor tree as-is.

Re: A small LRU list module

Nick Gerakines — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 22:24:29 -0000

I'll speak with my co-author and will look into writing a small preview post with some details. Stay tuned.

Re: Dynamically sizing a fragmented mnesia store

Nick Gerakines — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:44:01 -0000

The documentation is just weak.

Re: I Play WoW Scaling

Nick Gerakines — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:58:05 -0000

Having unique key constraints may solve your problem. It varies (heavily) from situation to situation.

Having the ordered_set ets table type prevents duplicate items from being added to the table.

Re: I Play WoW Scaling

Nick Gerakines — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:50:36 -0000

I was concerned with it because I knew there was a better, more efficient way to do what I was doing but my laziness was getting the better of me. Having a multimillion item queue isn't an issue if you "do things the right way" and I simply wasn't.

A large part of the problem was that the queue was not forcing uniqueness when items were being added to it. This mean that users would go to a character profile page or guild page multiple times and the same work to fetch gear, wowhead data and character achievements was just stacking up forcing the queues to triple and quadruple in length.

Re: Category Cloud

Nick Gerakines — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:22:05 -0000

Sorry, the project was abandoned a while back when I found out that you could make tag clouds in Movable Type without using plugins. If you still want the source, email me and I can reply with it.

Re: Erlang and Nginx, a proof of concept

Nick Gerakines — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:10:02 -0000

Thanks for the link!

The nginx Erlang module is really only a request handler that creates a tmp node to dispatch a request. It doesn't try to do any complex threading or process management and exists solely to break down requests that are initially handled by nginx for further processing by an Erlang destination.