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Comment on Deleting files older than specified time with s3cmd and bash by Adam C

Adam C — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:44:59 +0000

Love it! Thanks!

Comment on Monkeys and shakespeare: genetic algorithms with Jenes by Jack Glover

Jack Glover — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:04:59 +0000

Hi,

I am interested in your use of the Jenes library with Eclipse. I agree that it looks more simple to use than other EC/GA libraries I’ve looked at for Java but I’m not finding it so easy to setup and get started with.

I’m not new to programming but am new to Java and Eclipse (my brief background is in C++ and a little C# so not all concepts are alien to me).

My main issue is setting up the library and IDE to a point where I can start using the algorithms to evolve African drum rhythms being initialized and rendered by a max/msp patch. In what form and how do I use the library in the java build path? And perhaps you could briefly explain what you had to build on top of the library to use the algorithm?

Perhaps that last question will be answered if I can get to a point where I can build one of the tutorials, but I don’t find it so intuitive to get to that point yet.

Thanks for any help you can offer.

Jack

Comment on AJAX Request Slow With PHP? Here’s Why by Matt Daum

Matt Daum — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:29:46 +0000

That’d work to and most likely be faster than the DB method as its from memory. Basically any non-blocking method will work. With the file system the file locks were what was causing the issue. In a high load environment you would want to use Memcache storage or something similar as it will be less IO and quicker.

Comment on AJAX Request Slow With PHP? Here’s Why by whisller

whisller — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:26:54 +0000

Have you tried to change session storage to e.g. memcache first (http://php.net/manual/en/memcached.sessions.php)? Maybe it will be faster than using sfPDOSessionStorage.

Comment on Use Greasemonkey to extract your Facebook Phonebook by Erick

Erick — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:45:10 +0000

This isn’t working :( Would love to have a script to easily add friends from Facebook to LinkedIn.

Comment on AJAX Request Slow With PHP? Here’s Why by Paulo

Paulo — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:00:01 +0000

Nice tip! I would never think about it!

Comment on Facebook: How-to force users to LIKE page by Ashish Datta

Ashish Datta — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:05:17 +0000

Hmm did you accidentally drop the “require” line at the top? Could you paste the code you’re using on http://pastie.org/ and then drop the link here?

Comment on Facebook: How-to force users to LIKE page by Kim

Kim — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:08:12 +0000

Getting an error Fatal error: Class ‘Facebook’ not found

I searched Facebook dev forum but no one had a solution. Was there another step that may have been left out of the guide?

Comment on Upload directly to S3 with SWFUpload by Ashish Datta

Ashish Datta — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:14:03 +0000

Thanks Eben, great find!

Comment on Upload directly to S3 with SWFUpload by Eben

Eben — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:04:51 +0000

Great post! Thank you for writing it. I browsed around trying to find why one needs to provide “filename” in the policy when the normal html post form doesn’t require it, and I found this post:
https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=77198

About four posts down someone brings up that flash automatically includes a field in the post parameters called “filename.” This would explain why if you leave the ‘filename’ out of the policy that you get an error saying “filename” is an extra input filed. The solution posted is to add this to the policy:
[ "starts-with", "$filename", "" ],

That says the filename can start with anything thus freeing up your form to accept files without knowing the filename before hand.