While running some tests on my local machine, I discovered a certain content item on Authware took between 2.5 and 2.9 seconds to load — when nearly every other one got loaded in less than 0.7 seconds. There were some basic references to clone — especially when determining the book name for a certain content item and discovering the book was it’s own parent — and I naturally erroneously assumed the overhead arose in those sections. Doing a manual copy of all the elements I needed instead of cloning changed nothing.

I know Google Reader’s still in the Google Labs section but I’ve had enough trying it out for the past one week. What feed aggregator marks feeds with the time it retrieves them instead of fetching what’s in the Atom or RSS information?
I could handle that for a while but I guess enough becomes enough [...]

Okay, I’ve had it.
This is the second time I’m installing Kubuntu on my system. As soon as I update via Adept and restart, I find I can’t log in. It authenticates me successfully but brings me back to the login screen.
What’s worse, it eliminated the bootloader on my first [Windows XP] hard disk and [...]

I’ve long had a dream of connecting with other writers on the web. Writing.com? Paid for. And I’m not too sure I like any of the others I’ve come across. It’s because of just this, that I decided to work on WritingInn.
The idea’s been kicking around in my head for a very long time, and [...]

Are Apple and Microsoft beginning to bond? Or are these ads serving to poke fun at Microsoft?

I’ve been so caught up watching movies that I’ve hardly done any real coding in the past few weeks. I’ve been forced to stop waxing philosophical about anything geeky on my other blog, so this has been a long time waiting in the sidelines.
I’ve rewritten the db abstraction layer for Authware. It was never anything [...]

At last, I shall be free to rant in peace. I’ll hopefully be moving most of my code section over here.
The old links to my page content will still work. I set up 301 redirects to the new content.

I tried installing Slackware today. I was too lazy to look up the parameters for fdisk and cfdisk, so I got out my Fedora DVD and wiped my second hard disk clean (there’s a Fedora install on it but my Windows Vista RC1 installation erased GRUB and installed its own tacky boot loader).
Dumb me! I [...]

I’ve already mocked up a design for Authware and tweaked the database layer — I was able to communicate successfully with PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQL Server. Hopefully, any other developer interested should be able to write a layer for mySQLite or some other obscure database. I used PHP 5’s Interface feature — the classes only [...]