building an A.I. that has something at least marginally interesting and more-or-less correct about any subject
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#62Same project I've been working on for the better part of 3 months, unfortunately: a web based chat using GWT to replace a flash based one. The primary reasons are: we wanted to control the source code and remove dependecy on third-party products and becase we want the chat to work on iPad so flash is out.
Running into tons of stumbling blocks primarily around keeping the app near realtime and stable. It's GWT on the front-end, but .NET webservices on the backend. The existing flash based system has a custom server service and periodically dumps logs into SQL Server. We started off trying to write directly to SQL with our version but it wasn't fast enough and we were running into too many contention issues. Now we're throwing Memcached in the middle and it's much faster, but we're not entirely out of the woods.
I'm thoroughly convinced HTTP just shouldn't be used for chat applications.
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#63Working on a few things:
Starting to get the word out for GISQuery.com, a Q&A site for GIS professionals using OSQA. Having an interesting time getting the word out on this one since I need participation for the site to grow.
Learning CodeIngniter as a PHP framework to help get a few other ideas off the ground (a revamped 140Pl.us and a new beer website). I am getting tired of trying to build highly functioning sites from scratch so I thought I'd try a framework.
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#64Wrapping up my last day at the office.
Same here! Making the jump from large corporation employment to startup life.
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#65I am working on stuffing my face with burgers and chips prior to going back to the land of noodles and raw fish. Plus customer support emails, since birthdays and bridal showers don't stop just because I am on vacation.
I would be interested to know how much time you spend doing customer support; or, rather, whether you have tried to automate any of this using existing tools (like getsatisfaction, or even just a faq). Or since - as you have written in the past - your customers are not particularly techno-savvy, are these tools of limited use to you, and emails are the only way to go? This might be of interest to companies with similar customers.
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#66Two things:
a) A module to load and execute arbitrary ELF files, to be used for post-exploitation in penetration tests.
b) A PoC method to detect SSL stripping attacks, client-side.
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#67I've been hanging out with my friend who now lives in NYC (I'm in Denver).
Relationships FTW.
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#68Working on an iPad app for Barilla for a couple of hours and the rest of the day on FancyDocs.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you have the flexibility to rewrite the project in Rails, absolutely do it :)
I totally have the flexibility in that if I showed up with a Rails version of the app my boss would be all for it. But I don't have the flexibility to do it on company time. I am currently studying Rails 3 and getting a feel for how long I think it'd take to do this. I think a clean, well written Rails version of the app would make my life so much easier in the long run. Silverlight is an interesting beast. All in al…
... if I showed up with a Rails version of the app my boss would be all for it. But I don't have the flexibility to do it on company time.
That's a long and tiring road.
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#70Building a digital signature tool with SVG and Batik to replace a paid tool (Pronto from AlphaTrust) that costs about $1 per signature.