Dr Fragen in the operating room

Andy Fragen

  • UserLand down

    Unless you’ve been in a large hole somewhere you know that some of UserLand’s servers are down. Notably the server that runs the RCS, Radio’s cloud. What does it mean? Well, for starters none of your posts, including this one, will be upstreamed. I don’t believe that any of the RSS feeds will be there…

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  • Radio Crash and Offline Toggle

    Well I think I’ve finally killed that crashing bug. Here’s what was happening. My osxOfflineToggle script was being called every minute, it was supposed to. The problem was that every minute I was calling the tcp.setOffline macro and this set up the running of the callbacks the internal callback, radio.callbacks.tcpSetOffline. Unfortunately this callback wants to…

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  • Crash update

    I thought I had the problem fixed but apparently not. At least now I know where it is. Something about a long timeout if the net connection is down and the script gets hung up. I think what’s going on is every once in a while, depending on the speed of the connection, some scripts…

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  • String Concatenation

    Optimal String Concatenation A recent essay by Seth Dillingham explains the optimal methods for building large strings in UserTalk , including why these methods are the fastest. In order to optimize this process as much as possible, there are two things the scripter needs to remember: [Script Meridian News] This was also pointed out in…

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  • Radio crash

    Trying to work out a bad crashing problem in Radio and OS X. Whatever is causing the problem isn’t releasing port 5335, so after restarting Radio the Web Server is nonfunctional. Bummer. I think I’m narrowing it down, with Jake’s help of course. I think I’ve found the problem. One of my own creation. I’ll…

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  • Cocoa browsers

    Well I’ve been using Chimera and OmniWeb for the past few days. Each renders nicely but each has certain qualities that I wish they would share. OmniWeb refuses to utilize JavaScript correctly. Chimera just refuses to do lots of things correctly. It’s a toss up at times. YMMV. I think at the moment OmniWeb behaves…

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