Re: [Ginp-developers] Scalability and PicCollections

[Doug C. <do...@cu...>]

Justin wrote:

> Doug,
>
>     I committed the scalability fixes and from what I can see it seems 
> to go a lot faster already.   There may be some bugs I didn't catch 
> but give it a try.  Right now the cache is set to reload every two 
> minutes.
>
> Regards,
>
>     Justin
>
Found no bugs. :-) and it is faster.  Good work. 

You are using techniques that I am finding hard to follow.  This is OK 
because I think they are obviously good techniques, but you may have to 
put up with me doing some silly things as I try to get into your code.

Updated my site to use the HEAD version.  I was having stability 
problems with the last version so maybe you have fixed this.  Therefore 
we are running your changes on the main ginp site which is becoming a 
good stress tester.  The traffic on this site is increasing mainly as a 
result of some search engine work I did.  SourceForge will hopefully 
update their stats system soon and we can see how we are doing.  I think 
we will not get may leads from SF with a activity of 26% which is not 
too accurate because I think the activity has increased this last 
month.  The search results always favor the high activity sites.

Done the xml thing for configuration.  Used XPATH (cool when you 
understand it) and DTD to specify defaults (seamed a good idea).  Will 
update documentation if when we are happy with it.  I think it is 
elegant and good but I am not sure if it is efficient.

I have broken one of my tests.  This is not good but I am tempted to be 
aggressive about it and remove the collectionS.jsp page which is mostly 
not used.  It is a page that allows the user to select the collection.  
This can be done with a good menu on the collection.jsp page.  I will 
sleep on this but let me know if you have an opinion about it.

Started playing with eclipse but got scared and went back to jedit.  It 
is clearly good but I have to find the time and patience to go thought 
the tutorials....

I want to concentrate on Hibernate and the data structure now but again 
this is a learning curve, that will take time investment before it 
produces a net gain in productivity.

All the best,

Doug

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Doug Culnane
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