Curiouser and Curiouser!

Testing Windows Upstreamer

Upstreaming in Radio Userland is a great idea. It's very nice to be able to drop a file in the www folder and have Radio automatically upload it to your weblog.

The problem is that Radio has to check every file & folder in your www directory whenever it upstreams. If you have it set to do this often enough that upstreaming is responsive (30s is the slowest I can bear) then Radio ends up flaying your CPU alive. You can see this happen in the Task Manager with regular spikes showing Radio doing it's stuff.

To combat this I have written a companion app WindowsUpstreaming.exe which detects changes to the file system and tells Radio to upstream. It's started when Radio starts and lives in the system tray.

Now I can turn off Radio's regular upstreaming and say goodbye to CPU spikes. Better yet I get instantaneous upstreaming because it's using the built in OS mechanism.

If anyone would like to help test the app, please leave a comment with contact details.

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Getting some perspective on those WMD's

K-Collector @ Wonder Widgets, Inc.

We have recently launched a new K-Collector demo site. This is intended to show prospective customers how K-Collector might look (& be used) in their company. The W4 portal is interesting but too eclectic to really get an idea of how K-Collector is intended to work.

The site in question is for our imaginary company Wonder Widgets, Inc. who are purveyors of fine Java and .NET components. We had a bit of fun making up lots of posts ...it's how I imagine soap opera are written... we've already had one person leave the company!

So, if you've wondered what K-Collector is really all about, please drop me a line and I will organise a short (10-20 mins) demo for you. I'm happy to do this as I need the practice :-)