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    May 26, 2008

    Twitter - Even the top guys have Corruptions

    Database Corruptions

    No systems no matter how robust are immune to Database Corruptions.

    Twitter Reports:

    Around 11 am in San Francisco, our main database db006, crashed because of too many connections. We have to put the service into an unscheduled maintenance mode to recover. Folks will see degraded service for the next few hours.

    Hats off to the guys at Twitter for making something so popular.


     

    July 11, 2007

    Will it Blend?

    FYI

    http://www.willitblend.com/videos.aspx?type=unsafe&video=iphone

    Just had to share.

    November 30, 2006

    Paris Hilton is still in Top 10 Google Search Terms...

    Just checked the a couple of sources on the net and the current top 10 search terms on google are:

    1. google
    2. girls
    3. youtube
    4. games cheat
    5. paris hilton
    6. games
    7. myspace
    8. bigfoot sightings
    9. meaning of names
    10. cindy margolis

     

    Closely followed by terms like dogs, fergie, smack that, white and nerdy, jenna jameson and anime....

    Where is the worlds head at ... the terms should be development, ajax, clarion and software....

    How would you write and article about Clarion that involved Paris Hilton, more girls, youtube, game cheats....sightings of bigfoot and a sighting of celebs Cindy Margolis and Jenna Jameson.....it would be easy to include white and nerdy tho....

    HANG ON just did write a post that included those.... :-)

    Go figure...

    Last update: Sun, 05 Nov 2006 08:37:16 GMT

    November 11, 2006

    Gone in less than a Second....

    How to strip HTML Tags from a String Buffer in Clarion is easy as pi....

    Ever needed to extract data from html or clean up you email reader....

    Move a sliding window over the string data; determining when we have found the start and end of a html tag and then cut...its really that easy...

    Example Stripping Code:

    stag# = False
    j# = 1
    LOOP i# = 1 TO LEN(CLIP(pMessage))
    IF pMessage[i#] = CHR(62) AND stag# = True THEN
    stag# = False
    ELSIF pMessage[i#] = CHR(60) AND stag# = False THEN
    stag# = True
    ELSE
    IF NOT stag# THEN OutMessage[j#] = pMessage[i#];j# += 1.
    END
    END

    CHR(62) is '<' tag and CHR(60) is '>' tag....everything inclusive and in between is html formating....there are a few exceptions like converting <br> to carriage return line feeds and &nbsp; and other encoded chars like &#13; etc.....

    But this is perfect for extracting data from http streams...Clarion is a very powerful tool when doing parsing work...

    Cheers...

    September 22, 2006

    Trackbacks Explained...

    TrackBacks are designed to provide a means of notification between websites.

    For example it is a method of person A saying to person B, “This is something you may be interested in.” To do that, person A sends a TrackBack ping to person B. TrackBacks are typically sent from one weblog to another when one publishes a post that includes a link to the other weblog.

    The idea of a TrackBack is based on the priciple of push, rather than pull--if you want to share information with another website, you initiate the connection, rather than waiting for the other website to discover you (and your information).

    Sending a TrackBack is often called a TrackBack ping. A ping in this context means a small message sent from one webserver to another....

    Hopefully this has cleared up what a trackback is...

    September 11, 2006

    apifinder.com...

    Here is a cool resource for finding web services and apis to consume for free...

    APIFinder is a list various application programming interfaces (APIs). 

    Thes site is a place to share ideas and advice on how to use APIs in your programming.

    The site grows through community contribution and expert advice - so please submit your most excellent APIs, articles and projects today...

    We will be...

    Link to www.apifinder.com - the essential directory for application programming interfaces