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Re: Review of Great New Premium Wordpress Theme Designed for Lifestreamers

zeeg — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:53:01 -0000

Glad to see Lifestream getting more and more support! I really like the idea of including the plugin in theme designs, and it's a great starting with WooThemes.

However, I wanted to make one comment, which bothered us a bit. The Irreistable theme from WooThemes has some not-very-nice CSS included by default, which forces your page to hide Lifestream credits (which are opt-in only) as well as the date headers.

I would have preferred to see them as an option rather than putting this on the user without a choice.

Please see this post, http://www.ibegin.com/labs/forums/index.php?top..., for the lines which cause the problems.

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

zeeg — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:20:24 -0000

Well this probably isn't the place to find that opinion. They're all close enough that it's not going to matter that much unless you're scaling on the level of Facebook.

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

zeeg — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:32:57 -0000

As some have stated this really takes the use of an RDBMS out of the picture, but until there are things like Big Table which are actually on the open market, and are reliable, this seems to be a very common approach to handling large scale database applications. It's what we do, and will continue to do for any application which expects to see a large amount of traffic. However, rather than creating tables for each index (although this is a decent approach to handling parts of the denormalization set), we try to keep each attribute which needs indexed outside of the JSON BLOB, and simply leave it up to MySQL to index.

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

zeeg — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:25:54 -0000

APC is a very common choice. They all more or less do the same thing.

Re: LifeStream WordPress Plugin

zeeg — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:34:32 -0000

http://davidcramer.net/wp-content/lifestream-0....

Re: LifeStream WordPress Plugin

zeeg — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:16:32 -0000

I'm committing version 0.85. If this doesn't fix the download link on WP.org I will host a copy here as well.

Re: Spaceless HTML in Django

zeeg — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:55:54 -0000

We GZIP as well. Sadly, everyone's still not on broadband today, so even shaving off 5 or 10k from the request can be quite useful (especially when the amount of time it takes to do that is immeasurable).

Re: Singletons in Django

zeeg — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:21:50 -0000

Ah if you are correct then I will be renaming the project. I haven't done much research (in terminology), but had assumed it was correct via the ticket on Django.

Re: Singletons in Django

zeeg — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:34:51 -0000

Personally, I plan to use it throughout the codebase to prevent some data issues. The one area this doesn't affect right now (due to complications we had with it at Curse) is serialization. It will ignore the instance caching when you unserialize objects (such as from the cache).

Re: Singletons in Django

zeeg — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:31:28 -0000

I think per query is a bit out of scope for what I want to achieve. Doing this would require the queryset/manager to be aware (to some extent) of the singleton model. This wouldn't quite achieve the same performance benefit.

The biggest thing about this, while it IS an obvious performance boost, its not the sole intention of the project. Having unique instances of an object in memory can solve a lot of other issues as well.

Re: Spaceless HTML in Django

zeeg — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:27:09 -0000

Have you confirmed this? I believe the whitespace tag is designed to avoid that, but I haven't fully tested it.

Re: Spaceless HTML in Django

zeeg — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:57:25 -0000

It's mostly indentation that actually contributed to the whitespace :)

Re: Spaceless HTML in Django

zeeg — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:13:39 -0000

Does mod_deflate allow removing the extra whitespace? In your example you are correct, that it's not a huge savings for that individual request, and gzip I would highly recommend, but the CPU time is negligible.

Re: Impressions of the BlackBerry Storm

zeeg — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:27:04 -0000

My expectations might not have been as high as some I guess, but I've been very pleased with it so far. It's really going to depend on what RIM does in the next month or two to see if they can really compete with Apple.

Re: MediaWiki markup and SphinxSearch for Django

zeeg — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:38:29 -0000

It was used for Curse.com (slightly modified, as we had a full wiki app at one point). I'm willing to maintain it, but as I don't use it myself in any production environments, I'd have to be encouraged in order to add features.

However, if there is interest, I'd gladly accept patches, or even requests.

Re: Tips for Scaling a Web App

zeeg — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 00:03:26 -0000

In some situations, yes. We happen to have more than just a username and user id though. We use it to pass other dynamic information pages as well. But the solution is far from silly, and it's a lot more common than you may think.

Re: Tips for Scaling a Web App

zeeg — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 16:30:02 -0000

Yes there are, but there is no need to use signals (extra overhead) when it's a simple task like this.

Re: Tips for Scaling a Web App

zeeg — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 02:08:16 -0000

On initialization (__init__) you can store the state of things. I may throw up an example here in a few days, the code above doesn't actually match what we use, but it was a quick clean example :)

Re: LifeStream WordPress Plugin

zeeg — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:18:39 -0000

It seems as if it's possibly not doing relative includes. This is very strange behavior. I will change them to absolute in the next commit. Thanks!

Re: How Things Have Changed

zeeg — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:34:07 -0000

I have noticed increased traffic on keywords which should have been weighted better before.

Re: Lifestream data and plugins

zeeg — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 01:43:47 -0000

Well it uses RSS for Twitter. I guess you could manually import them into the DB with a small bit of work, but it imports any that it finds in your Twitter RSS feed.

Re: Lifestream data and plugins

zeeg — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 01:16:22 -0000

Well, what lifestream does is allow you to collect all your information into one stream, much like the activity feed on Facebook. Right now it only works in Wordpress, using a few tables in your blog database which it creates. As for the display issues, I've tried to use fairly generic styles and not to override much, but there may be something that is conflicting.

Re: Lifestream data and plugins

zeeg — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:37:15 -0000

Hey,

Author of wp-lifestream (#3 on your list). I'm very open to suggestions on how to improve the frontend display to allow users, like yourself, easier formatting. I've also been looking into the database issues, but they've been hard to reproduce and not everyone has them.

Re: Django Scaling Numbers for iBegin

zeeg — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:25:27 -0000

It was just a quick test using the "siege" application available on unix-based systems.

Re: Django Scaling Numbers for iBegin

zeeg — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:05:20 -0000

This is single server, that's fairly mediocre in hardware. The only modifications to Django is our composite primary key support.

Thanks Tomek, sphinx (search) was down. We're still having some issues with error emails and sphinx didn't have an init.d script setup yet.