Natural Born Chatter is a multiple-mode user-friendly network
communication utility, including real-time chat, instant messaging and
exchange of files. It is intended to be used in small office or home
office (SOHO) local networks.
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Natural Born Killers of PHP
Natural Born Killers of PHP10/28/2003 11:08 PM Recently I revised Optimizing PHP, an article that I wrote in 2002.
I'm pleased to say that it hasn't aged much. The changes I had to make
include a recommendation to use FastCGI with IIS, adding Turck MMCache
to the opcode cache list, recommending Cache_Lite, replacing foreach
with list/each for large arrays, and the realisation that arrays need
to be passed by reference too.
Then I realized how much more I could have discussed. I started to
think more about performance profiling after discussing APD in a
previous post.
Now there is some logic to the fact that functions with many lines of
code will run slower than ones which are short and brief.
However sometimes it's the shortest code snippet that cause the real
slowdowns. That's because these code snippets call external functions
that hide a lot of complexity behind a deceptively simple and light
exterior. With any of the following natural born killers, one
thoughtless line of code can result in a unbearable x100 times
slowdown:
SQL statements - for example, adding a simple ORDER BY clause to a
query could cause a massive slowdown because all records will have to
be obtained on the server and sorted first before it is sent to the
PHP client.
Regular expressions - because regular expressions work by
back-tracking when a match fails, its common for a regular expression
to be exponentially expensive to compute. The longer the string, the
worse it becomes.
Network calls - the increasing popularity of SOAP and similar
inefficient but easy-to-use protocols open up new vistas of
unscalability for the unwary.
Classic performance tuning techniques used by XDebug and APD give you
a summary of all functions with long execution times. This is useful,
but we need tools to easily pinpoint, measure and tune the overhead of
killers such as SQL statements, regular expressions and RPC calls. I
think that we already have enough Open Source CMS projects out there.
Tuning tools like this are great idea for students and developers with
time to kill, looking for an interesting Open Source project to start.
"While a business process is running," an IBM white paper on BPEL4WS
dryly notes, "it might be necessary to undo one of the steps that have
already been successfully completed." Translation: Things can get
screwed up, and then they need to be fixed. If there's anything
revolutionary about Web services, it's the notion that we'll be able
to deal with the inevitable screwups in more realistic and more
effective ways. Compensation can't simply mean what it does to a
programmer: chaining back through a nested series of automatic
exception handlers. We have to accept that it's often people who both
throw and handle the exceptions, and we have to build software systems
that gracefully include them. [Full story at Inf
oWorld.com]
This short article, part of InfoWorld's special
report on Web services, touches on some things I'll say more about
in my talk at XML
2003 next week.
...
-David Halberstam
, Author, ``The Best and the Brightest``
Natural Born Nomi: Jedi Journals Update
Natural Born Nomi: Jedi Journals Update09/15/2004 07:31 AM This weeks update to the Jedi Journals
completes the first series of Tales of the Jedi. We are
introduced to Nomi Sunrider, Master Thon, Oss Wilum and more
characters than you can shake a lightsaber at! Today's update also
features Dark Horse Comics #7-9, which was the first appearance
of Nomi and her Tale.
Finally with these additions Jedi
Journals has reached 100 issues. Whew! Only 570+ more issues to go!
Intel Labs' Natural Born Killer Technologies
Intel Labs' Natural Born Killer Technologies05/06/2004 09:45 PM Rob Enderle visits Intel's Lab to see what's in the fab. And what he
finds should give IBM and Apple reason to grab their torches and
pitchforks.
It's only natural: Evaluation natural-language dialogs (VoiceXMLPlanet.com)
Chatter02/13/2004 07:35 AM How innovation happens.
Listening to the chatter
Listening to the chatter02/05/2005 09:31 PM
I'm sitting in building 33 waiting for the Bill Gates keynote to
start, listening to the chatter. A guy behind me is asked whether
he'll make the investment in VSTO 2005. He's on the fence. "I've been
doing a lot of the stuff you see here for years in VB," he says. "And
there's no upgrade from VSTO 2003 to VSTO 2005 -- you have to buy it
all over again." Stilll, he appreciates the productivity gains as as
you climb the VBA -> VSTO 2003 -> VSTO 2005 ladder. He'd like to
convince his money people to write the check, but isn't sure they
will. And then he makes this interesting point: "With the VB solution,
if somebody changed one cell they'd break you," he says. "Now the tool
insulates you from those changes."
...
Stem Cell Chatter
Stem Cell Chatter06/22/2005 01:49 AM Investors can tune out the coming debate in Congress.
Predicting Success From Net Chatter
Predicting Success From Net Chatter06/07/2004 04:07 PM Slowly, but surely, companies are beginning to realize some of the
benefits to the great internet publishing platform that lets anyone
write about anything. For many years, folks in Hollywood would mostly
ignore all the online discussion boards about movies, not really
caring what the fanboys had to say. More recently, that's changed,
and many studios recognize the value of getting some feedback from
fans before releasing a film. However, it's finally going a step
further and studios are starting to realize the predictive power of online movie forums in
determining whether a movie will be a success or a failure. Of
course, the result so far is that the execs are blaming
the internet for bad movies, rather than realizing that the
internet is simply reflecting public opinion. In other words, the
movie was already bad, and the internet just made people realize it
faster. Of course, the next thing that will happen, instead of
working to make better movies, the studios are likely to try to seed
internet message boards with fake anonymous posters touting how
wonderful a movie is.
Crazy Chaotic Chatter
Crazy Chaotic Chatter01/08/2004 08:49 PM I'm struggling very hard to not get sick again and I think I'm
winning. Vitamins, Juice and not trying to...
To Cut Online Chatter, Apple Goes to Court
To Cut Online Chatter, Apple Goes to Court03/22/2005 04:56 PM Steve Jobs has chosen to sue several sites that traffic in Apple news
in an effort to determine if his employees are leaking product
information.
Chatter over Madrid attack's success helped spur warning (USATODAY.com)
Chatter over Madrid attack's success helped spur warning (USATODAY.com)05/28/2004 06:26 AM USATODAY.com - Attorney General John Ashcroft's warning that
terrorists may strike the USA this summer was based on a stream of
intelligence that indicated that al-Qaeda is emboldened by its
successful attacks in Madrid and deadly assaults in Iraq, three senior
federal law enforcement officials who have reviewed the threat
material said Thursday. (Related story: Bush administration divided
over need for new terror alert)
PHP-Help.net is born !
PHP-Help.net is born !04/11/2005 03:27 AM PHP-Help.net is born today, a few days before Christmas.
Its main goal will be to build a database of explained PHP source
codes.
It is dedicated to both beginners and confirmed PHP developers:
It will bring to the new developper some PHP usage examples,
and allow experienced developers to submit their codes to community
in order to improve it. We hope you will enjoy our work,
Matt <matt@php-help.net>
An analysis by messaging-filtering vendor CipherTrust says the
large majority of the world’s spam comes from a few spammers
within the United States. And yet when I set my spam filters to block
non-NA originating emails my spams dropped noticeably….
Impressionism, Born of the Sea
Impressionism, Born of the Sea02/12/2004 10:12 PM This innovative Impressionist exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of
Art correlates the fluidity of the sea with the loosening brushwork of
late-19th-century French painters.
Born-again phone
Born-again phone03/13/2003 10:22 AM I want stuff that works. Not like my Ericsson mobile phone that just
decided to stop working. Less than two...
Scientists see new species born06/09/2004 09:15 AM Scientists studying flies that live off rotting cacti may have seen
the birth of a new species.
British-born astronaut given CBE
British-born astronaut given CBE12/30/2004 09:56 PM The British-born astronaut Michael Foale is rewarded in the New Year
Honours with a CBE in the diplomatic list.
Born on the Fourth of July07/03/2004 02:18 AM Media.us, the American Internet company, is opening its doors on the
Fourth of July.In advance of U.S Independence Day, Media.us is
granting businessmen the opportunity of enjoying full business
independence.www.media.us [PRWEB Jul 3, 2004]
Superman born in Germany?06/24/2004 12:53 PM
Superman born in Germany? It appears that "the boy's mutant
DNA segment was found to block production of a protein called
myostatin that limits muscle growth."
"Now we can say that myostatin acts the same way in humans as in
animals," said the boy's physician, Dr. Markus Schuelke, a
professor in the child neurology department at Charite/University
Medical Center Berlin. "We can apply that knowledge to humans,
including trial therapies for muscular dystrophy."
Babies Born With a Mission05/05/2004 05:28 AM A Chicago lab helps parents create five healthy babies to provide
stem-cell therapy for their diseased older siblings. The burgeoning
practice raises concerns about the ethics of pre-implantation genetic
screening.
MII Natural Language Processing Toolkit 1.0.1 (Default branch)
MII Natural Language Processing Toolkit 1.0.1 (Default branch)04/15/2005 05:46 PM
MII Natural Language Processing Toolkit is a toolkit for
medical natural language processing. The core engine is
general enough to be used in a variety of text processing
domains, though the toolkit includes specific support for
medical reports and patient de-identification.
Changes:
XML document support is now included in the toolkit.
Search for the Holy Grail of Natural Language Processing
Search for the Holy Grail of Natural Language Processing12/29/2004 03:34 AM This Natural Language Selection Engine uses a radically new method to
deliver contents on the fly. It uses Natural language Selection
methodologies to decipher what the user wants from the given input and
deliver content. [PRWEB Dec 29, 2004]
Natural Language Processing / Information Retrieval Software Repository
This directory and account holds centralized
software and tools for natural language processing (NLP) and
information retrieval (IR) research and teaching at the School of
Computing at the National University of Singapore. The account is
hosted off of sf3 such that students and researchers will be able to
get at these tools. Access is granted to all, however, if you'd like
to provide and/or install tools, you must first email the
administrators (rpnlpir@comp.... This directory has ben added to Directory Resources
Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.
The Natural Language Software Registry (NLSR) is a concise summary
of the capabilities and sources of a large amount of natural language
processing (NLP) software available to the NLP community. It comprises
academic, commercial and proprietary software with specifications and
terms on which it can be acquired clearly indicated. Software is
organized into the following categories: Annotation Tools; Evaluation
Tools; Language Resources; Multimedia; Multimodality; NLP Development
Aid; Spoken Language; and, Written Language. Several hundred packages
are included.
New Natural Language Search Engine: Kozoru08/11/2004 08:21 AM Put Kozoru on your radar, they just got three million dollars in
financing. Nothing going on with their Web site at the moment, but a
couple things are interesting about...
Ask Jeeves Goes Back to Natural Language Searching
Ask Jeeves Goes Back to Natural Language Searching06/05/2005 11:20 PM When Ask Jeeves hit the scene lo these many years ago, they were known
for natural language searching. Ask a question, get an answer, or at
least a pointer to...
Computers as Linguists: Paraphrasing Natural Language (New York Times)
E.J. Dionne: Have You No Sense of Decency, Sir? Of Course Not, This is the Bush Cartel. Being Decent Gets You in TROUBLE with the Bush Cartel, Whose Natural Home is the Gutter. 4/27
Talking to your car becoming natural04/13/2004 04:44 AM Researchers are working on technology that would let you have a
conversation with your car.
Natural Docs
Natural Docs11/01/2003 06:26 PM Natural Docs 1.14 released
Natural Born Chatter v2.9.7
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