Posted at: 10:58 pm by Timothy Haroutunian Categories: Tech and Web
Except for the fact that the Mozilla website was down most of the day, Firefox 3 was released today and it is looking real nice. Most of my extensions were compatible and the rest will be updated hopefully soon.
The Boston Celtics are currently closing in on their 17th championship. I decided to spend the time with my parents and mainly my father instead of going into Boston which is what my original plan was.
* Update: The total for today is just shy of 4 million downloads.
Posted at: 11:26 pm by Timothy Haroutunian Categories: Tech and Web
For me, the right web hosting solution was Dreamhost, but you may want something different.
The following is a sponsored post. “Web Hosting Pal” is a website that helps you to determine which hosting company/plan is right for you. It gives you a list of web hosting companies that have been rating in the top 10 based on price and services. Once you click on a hosting company, “Web Hosting Pal” gives you more information about them. Tells you what services they offer with the advantages of each.
You want to look for a web hosting company that gives you the best options, not just the most options. Unlimited use of the company’s music library is useless unless you are building a site for an elementary school library and music is fun to have on the kids page. For someone like me, who builds web applications, paying for that wouldn’t be worth it. However, if they offered me unlimited domain hosting to my data limit is really helpful to me, so Dreamhost works. Also for me, One click install of Wordpress really helps on the different blogs I host for everyone else (not this one). I know, Dreamhost has had a few problems lately, but I am not running a high profile business off of them.
The only problem with “Web Hosting Pal”, is they haven’t updated their top 10 since October of 2005, so I’m not sure how accurate their prices are. Check out “Web Hosting Pal” and also look at Dreamhost because I really enjoy them.
Posted at: 11:36 pm by Timothy Haroutunian Categories: Tech and Web
While at work the other day, our SVN server decided that it wanted to shut down randomly. Well, nothing is completely random, but I don’t know why it shut down. However, I have not found an easy way to restart it. The only way that I have figured out to accomplish this is to restart our entire server and restart it. Luckily our SVN is on our development server and it won’t cause any problems, but it is time consuming wait for it to load back up. I was hoping that I could set it up as a service so I could do something like: /sbin/service subversion restart or /sbin/service svn restart.
If anyone has any incite on this matter, it would be awesome.
Posted at: 11:33 pm by Timothy Haroutunian Categories: Tech and Web
Those who like Amanda Congdon, granted I was introduced near the end of “Rocket Boom”, will be excited to know that she is back with vlogging (Video Blogging). She is working on “Sometimes Daily” which is randomness again, but hopefully it will catch on.
The vlog will begin on Monday, May 5 (Cinco De Mayo)….Enjoy!
Posted at: 11:50 pm by Timothy Haroutunian Categories: Tech and Web
Have you ever wondered how many servers Facebook has? How do they deal with the 26 million user visits each day. Om Malik gave me the answer. According to someone inside Facebook, the company has a total over 10,000 servers. There are 1,800 servers specifically for MySQL that is maintained my two DBAs (Database Administrators). I guess if my web application goes well, I will need to get a lot of servers. That seems a little much, but I guess they know what they are doing.
At my work, we have a bunch of servers as well…and by a bunch, I mean chop of a few zeros from Facebook’s total. Sources say that Facebook will be buying $9 million worth more of servers to add onto their $7 million they spend already.
Posted at: 11:52 pm by Timothy Haroutunian Categories: Tech and Web
Last Saturday I was at the Red Sox game when I dropped by BlackBerry into my beer. (Smithwick’s Ale) My phone still worked, but I couldn’t see the screen. After a day of drying out, the screen never showed back up and it is quite important when making calls. I had insurance on the phone and got a new one from the company. I figured all of my numbers and settings were gone, but the new phone came with BlackBerry Desktop Manager which allowed me to transfer all of my files, contacts and messages to my other phone. It made my life so much easier.
Posted at: 11:56 pm by Timothy Haroutunian Categories: Tech and Web
Months ago, we started to redesign different parts of our sites and started using Ajax to accomplish that. Some of my co-workers liked using MooTools and I am a jQuery user. Just so I could get things done at work and not try and learn a new javascript framework, I wrote my code in jQuery. When one of my co-workers asked why I was using it, I explained the pros and very few cons of jQuery. Work now conforms to a jQuery standard and makes my life a lot easier.
However, while redesigning GradCity.com (still not live yet as of post date), we found a MooTools version of a feature we wanted to add into the site. We thought about how we could convert it into jQuery, but we didn’t want to spend too much time on that and get behind on the rest of the site. We decided to leave it in there for now until we presented the new design to management. However, it was conflicting with jQuery like we knew it would. We spent time changing the few items that we currently had in there from jQuery’s $(”#something”).click(…) to jQuery(”#something”).click(…) for now so everything would work. However, most of the jQuery plugins use $ and the plugins themselves are packed. I wanted to find a way that I could redefine the namespace for the one MooTools plugin and use the $ for jQuery.
Now, we still don’t have time to convert yet, but I think I found an easier way of making this happen. I make a post to the MooTools forum and got two different answers. However, the one answer that I like tells me that I can use $$ and it will leave the $ namespace alone for jQuery to play with. The $$ is the annoying new kid who no one likes and everyone starts making fun of him instead of the scrawny little kid who can’t play basketball. Now people can get along with the scrawny kid because he is not the oddball anymore.
jQuery is 1000% better than MooTools in my opinion.
While developing a facebook application for work the other day, I saw this ad on the left hand side. The website is that this was for was: stdmatch.net. The question I have, is did the woman posing for this even know what her face was going to be on? If I was asked to pose for something, I would want to know what it was going to be used on and I wouldn’t agree to have my face be associated with herpes.
I know that some people might not think this is funny, but I got a kick out of their title. “Have Herpes and Alone?” It also says that it was featured on CNN, “As seen on cnn.com”.
I thought the title of this post was funny. Dual meaning!
Posted at: 11:55 pm by Timothy Haroutunian Categories: Tech and Web
Today Comcast released very fast internet to subscribers who would like faster speeds than anyone else. For those who are interested will incur a charge of $150 per month on their bill. However, Comcast is not the first company to do this. Verizon FIOS (what I have) has been offering 50Mbit for quite some time with limited availability to highly competitive areas, like Boston. Comcast will cap the upload speed to 5Mbit while Verizon allows for 20Mbit upload speeds.
Except for the fact that the Mozilla website was down most of the day, Firefox 3 was released today and it is looking real nice. Most of my extensions were compatible and the rest will be updated hopefully soon.
