July Already?
Posted July 1, 2010 – 23:41 in: dhp1080, syndicatedI suppose I’ve been taking my summer break from writing here. June passed without any articles, sadly. So to placate those of you who hang on my every word (you’re out there, right?), here’s my midsummer update.
Personally, I have less than two months before school resumes. My summer thus far has consisted of a relaxing vacation to South Carolina, the repeated fixing and modifying of kimages, and some occasional design and coding projects. In addition, I’ve continued reviewing products for ConnectReviews.
kimages
First, let me mention kimages. The site has grown in popularity over the past year. However, this growth has led to multiple outages due to extreme server load. Now, the code that runs kimages is relatively simple and similarly resource unintensive. The real problems lies in the fact that millions of images are served each month, leading to excessive amounts of bandwidth. So much so, that Apache even starts to struggle under the requests.
Now the only logical solution would be to throw more bandwidth and hardware at it. It’s a great solution. The problem lies in the funding, however. So that’s my existing predicament with kimages. Hopefully anyone who uses the service and occasionally sees downtime will understand why now.
iPhone 4
Call me a fanboy, but I ended up pre-ordering an Apple iPhone 4. It arrived June 23rd, a full day earlier than the public release. Boy, did I feel special.
Upgrading from the 3G is a huge leap. Now I have all sorts of iOS 4 goodies, along with a fantastic camera, amazing processor, and solid Jonathan Ive design. The sheer speed of the phone is a shock, with apps launching in a quarter the time it typically takes, photos instantly being saved to the camera roll, and webpages scrolling with very limited re-rendering.
I’ll admit that I suffer from the "death grip" as reported by many iPhone 4 users. Judging by Apple’s responses to customer complaints, there is a fix in the works in Cupertino, and we’ll be seeing that in the coming weeks. In the mean time, I’ll continue gripping the phone slightly strangely to avoid those pesky dropped calls and data losses.
What’s Coming Soon?
Not quite sure to be honest. Maybe a reincarnation of CloudGate? Probably not. I’ll probably just continue to tweak existing projects, maybe do a bit of third party design work, etc. We’ll see how things progress.
I plan on attending a few more Cubs games and enjoying whatever nice weather Illinois throws my way. Who knows, maybe I’ll even end up posting again by the end of the summer? A bit of a stretch, but anything is possible.
Until next time…
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