Mariachi has scaling issues caused by the fact that it doesn't arbitarily break stuff up over month boundries because, well, threads don't stop just because it's the end of the month. That plus threading meant that it slowed to a crawl around the $n thousand messages mark, even when adding messages incrementally. This is sub-optimal.

A while back ( Read more... )

At work I'm reinventing CPAN but for a multitude of interoperating languages. Which sounds an awful lot like FreePAN which coincedentally seems to have got some momentum at YAPC::Taipei.

To be honest I don't like some of the design decisions of FreePAN, particularly the "being backed by Subversion" nature. I don't even like the idea that it's ( Read more... )

Since the last update Buscador has had its utf-8 From: names fixed, gained the ability to undesrtand month names and short years, added Mail::Thread::Arc style threads, begun to grok html mails and attachments better, become much more XHTML compliant (thanks to Brain 'LTJake' Cassidy), will now give a list of all entities on the system and ( Read more... )

As part of something at work that has previously required doing horrific hacks to present IR Receivers as keyboards and arsing around writing kernel drivers to get VIA Unichrome CLE266 chips to do hardware MPEG decoding (I'm so 733t) and now I'm ... fixing HTML and PHP. sigh. And now I've hit a problem - when someone hits the down button on a long ( Read more... )