Monthly Archives: October 2006

Using Ruby’s timout to keep the user experience snappy

Posted on October 25, 2006 by Todd Huss

On a my Ruby on Rails based San Francisco Sailing Weather website I make calls out to flickr.rb to retrieve photos.

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Upgrading to Spring 2.0 and Hibernate 3.2

Posted on October 19, 2006 by Todd Huss

Tonight I just completed the upgrade from Spring 1.2 and Hibernate 3.1 to Spring 2.0 and Hibernate 3.2 for work. I was expecting a rough upgrade but was pleasantly surprised how easily it went.

Posted in Database, Java, Software Engineering | 3 Comments

Xalan XSL transformations in the 1.4 JDK can be VERY slow

Posted on October 13, 2006 by Todd Huss

At work as part of our XML data feed product we end up doing XSLT transformations on XML files starting a a few MB all the way up to several hundred MB. Using the 1.4.2 JDK it took over 4 … Continue reading →

Posted in Java, Software Engineering, XML | 1 Comment

Deferring ad loading on your pages to avoid unnecessary outages

Posted on October 3, 2006 by Todd Huss

At GreatSchools we’ve had 3rd party ad server outages or slowness effectively make our site unusable as users browsers waited for certain ads to render before rendering the rest of the page. I had originally thought just specifying height and … Continue reading →

Posted in CSS, Design, Javascript, Software Engineering, Web | 2 Comments