Dr Fragen in the operating room
  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Books to read

    Well, Amazon delivered yesterday. Now I have some reading material from O’Reilly about XHTML and CSS. Now all I need to do is find the time. Wish me luck.