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Re: The worst things startups do

zbowling — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:14:31 -0000

Good. I guess we are doing it right at doubletwist.

Re: Rupert Murdoch Plans To Hide His Sites From Google, The World Yawns

zbowling — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:25:53 -0000

Rupert Murdoch is so out of touch with reality.

Re: Twitter and Penguins: How The San Francisco Zoo Uses Twitter [VIDEO]

zbowling — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:07:16 -0000

It was a fun day. Love seeing everyone there.

Re: Giannii, I must first apologize for my shaky ass hand. I...

zbowling — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:26:04 -0000

It was awesome.

Re: The chat room/forum problem (& an apology to @Technosailor)

twitter-15349214 — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:01:15 -0000

and i fear most will choose the noise...

Re: The chat room/forum problem (& an apology to @Technosailor)

zbowling — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:44:03 -0000

The new "retweet" feature on twitter will come in two flavors (from the API perspective). One with no retweet noise and one with it. Apps can pick and choose.

Re: Microsoft gets $358m verdict overturned in big patent case

zbowling — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:47:44 -0000

hahaha

Re: mind streams - Stumbled across this gem from our good friend...

zbowling — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:38:28 -0000

oh god that was classic!

Re: I have an announcement!

zbowling — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 15:53:44 -0000

just plain awesome. 2010 was a down year and 2010 is an up year.

Re: My first big moving surprise!

zbowling — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 15:50:08 -0000

thats awesome!

Re: A Major Milestone: Opera 10 is Here

zbowling — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 03:32:26 -0000

i would use if it loaded images in a way that didn't feel wrong. the scroll on to the screen like its 1997 and I'm on dial up for some reason with Opera. why do images look so weird on opera?

Re: Giannii

zbowling — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:29:28 -0000

wow. just f' amazing.

Re: Palm and Apple Play Cat and Mouse Over iTunes Sync

zbowling — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:50:27 -0000

cat and mouse :-)

Re: Google Latitude Comes to iPhone

zbowling — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:20:48 -0000

yet another reason apple needs background apps. push notifications is neat but doesn't cut the mustard and puts a lot of stress on devs to build server infrastructures for these things.

Re: Palm Pre Ad Spooks Us Out [Video]

zbowling — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:29:34 -0000

All the plam pre ads are weird.

Re: Google Chrome OS: Will It Kill Windows?

zbowling — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:42:04 -0000

It just better not be based on Android or it already fails.

Re: Susan Boyle Sings Memory on Britain’s Got Talent [YouTube Video]

zbowling — Sun, 24 May 2009 17:14:22 -0000

this song isn't as good as the last.

Re: Susan Boyle is Back: Proceeds to Semi-Finals [YouTube Video]

zbowling — Sat, 23 May 2009 19:09:30 -0000

Britain's Got Talent is so much better at pushing all the emotional buttons.

Re: Twitter Robots Killed Me (And Why I Apologize I May Not Be Following You Anymore)

zbowling — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:50:53 -0000

thanks!

Re: Twitter Robots Killed Me (And Why I Apologize I May Not Be Following You Anymore)

zbowling — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:49:43 -0000

Yeah, I'm loving it!

Re: A Very Interesting Video on How The Real Time Web Works in the Backend

zbowling — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 19:52:04 -0000

hI Jerome,
PHP doesn't have a problem with AJAX. That isn't the issue. AJAX Comet is an additional technique in using XMLWebRequest (AJAX) but it require the server can handle multiple connections and process at the ame time.

The reason PHP has a problem with the AJAX Comet model is that it forces all web requests to happen serially. Basically only one person can be served at any one time. Since PHP is fast though in processing that user's request, it doesn't really cause an issue. You really want to get the request, do what you need to do, and return it as quick as possible in PHP. If you have a person with a page that is open taking forever to process and return, everyone is put in line until they finish. The reason why PHP can't handle mutlitpe simultaneous requests is one that reaches back to its legacy and the numerous libraries it calls that are not thread safe.

In this model with Comet, you are intentionally leaving it a connection open, so you are in effect blocking anyone else from making a request.

The other problem is that PHP doesn't come with any threading type concepts. You can't really write a blocking queue system unless you have locks, mutexs, and threads. Since PHP can still run as a CGI processor (where each request open an instance and closes it) you can't persist in memory to handle a queue like that to easily (I can think of a hack but it nothing more then a hack).

Possible in PHP 6 or PHP 7 we will see the support we need, but currently PHP can't handle. It's not exclusive to PHP though. Perl 5 (entirely single threaded), Apache 1.3 (entirely single threaded), in a limited capacity Apache 2.0 (with patches is perfect), ASP.NET and/or IIS (in a limited capacity eat to many resources to handle it effectively IMHO).

The only tool kits that are ok at it are Java (with Jetty Webserver), Python (not with mod_python but a pure python webserver possibly with mod_proxy from Apache), Ruby (to difficult to explain here but its hard enough to scale) and a few others.

Re: Push Technologies over HTTP - Part 1

zbowling — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:49:17 -0000

Hi Jemimus,
I recorded another video to explain.

Zac

Re: RCA Small Wonder EZ300HD Review

Gage — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:18:56 -0000

So if I download ffmpegx it will make it so I can use iMovie?

Re: RCA Small Wonder EZ300HD Review

zbowling — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:42:49 -0000

iMovie is one of the most picky softwares. You can use ffmpegx above to convert the video pretty easy but its a few steps.

http://homepage.mac.com/major4/

Re: RCA Small Wonder EZ300HD Review

maggiek — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:43:52 -0000

i can open it in quicktime using perian, but how do i edit the video? is that another download or can i somehow export it to imovie? it is not letting me open it in imovie.