Comments for Andrew Rollins

Comment on On Database Abstraction, PHP, and Ruby by Dominik Dalek

Dominik Dalek — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 06:54:49 +0000

Never used OODBs myself but I know that ORMs lag behind native implementations. Various versions of LINQ (there are 3 types today) are 2-10 times slower (50-10% of speed achieved by handtweaking SQL query). It should improve with time but personally I see no real benefit in case of time-critical applications (online, heavy load, DB bound).

Comment on Location Tracking and Heat Maps by Yahoo Fire Eagle Now Public » Andrew Rollins

Yahoo Fire Eagle Now Public » Andrew Rollins — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:40:06 +0000

[...] is relevant to one of my previous posts on location tracking, and it’s an area I’m really interested in. Will developers embrace it? Will users fear [...]

Comment on Languages and Their Library Cultures by Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 16:00:10 +0000

Adi: I agree. Python looks pretty good. Django is suppose to be a great Python web framework, too. Unfortunetly, I’ve never used it for anything serious, so I didn’t think I could mention it with much authority. One day I’ll give it a try.

Comment on Languages and Their Library Cultures by Adi Oltean

Adi Oltean — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:03:44 +0000

Another notable example: Python (see http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ for a repository of Python packages).

Rant: Talking about scripting/dynamic languages. Personally, I don’t like Ruby at all. Perl - maybe, but Python rules. Everything is there where it needs to be, and behaves the way you would expect. The first time I saw a Python code, I could read it effortlessly, without knowing anything about the Python syntax.

Comment on Languages and Their Library Cultures by Dom

Dom — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:21:06 +0000

I really, really don’t like PEAR. ASP.NET is probably better today, but back in 1.1 era it was painful in many ways. It was still much better than writing in pure PHP. Today if I were forced to write web app, I’d probably use PHP with CodeIgniter and modules extension (available on CI wiki).

Comment on Cuil is Uncool by Dom

Dom — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:12:52 +0000

It’s hard to be revolutionary in search space. What matters is search relevance and presentation. Live has proven that simple stuff like too bright font on white page makes it harder to use search. IMO they nailed UI. Now it’s time to fix query results…

Comment on Cuil is Uncool by Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 22:49:25 +0000

Adi: You have a point, but it’s nothing revolutionary. People have tried similar layouts before and they didn’t make a dent in the market.

Comment on Cuil is Uncool by Adi Oltean

Adi Oltean — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:03:34 +0000

I give them credit, though, for a clean way to display search results (in a news-style tabloid format). The tab-based search categories is interesting. I am would be not surprised if Google copied some of their layout/display/categorization ideas …

Comment on Wordpress and .htaccess Password Protected Directories by Hirvine

Hirvine — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:42:32 +0000

You are my new hero! Thank you so, so much! That easy fix and for the wonderful explanation. Your explanation is very clear and I really appreciate it having the ‘why’ and solution. Again thank you!

Comment on Wordpress and .htaccess Password Protected Directories by Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:27:57 +0000

Worked great, I’m been pulling my hair out all night over this. Thank you. For the record i used the second option: ErrorDocument 401 “Unauthorized access”