Chilly Thursday 14 April, 2005

It's chilly in the 180 Room. Sunny and a little windy. Focus today has to be on some of the CPU issues. We'll see what progress I can make. Looking forward to another dedicated day. I'll try to avoid human contact and interaction as much as possible. Solid days of work are hard to cut out but they're so important.

Update 10:55PM: Pretty good work day. Refactored the code that generates the dynamic graphs for the site. They're very CPU-intensive. This is about the third time that I've worked to optimize them. Getting to a point where there's not much I can do. The third party library code is taking much longer than my code when a graph is called. It's causing problems right now because large graphs (with many data points) are locking up the CPU on the server for 20 or 30 seconds, not exactly high-traffic friendly... or even reasonable. Not sure what to do. Maybe a limit on the number of data points that can go into a graph. But that solution sucks. Some graph types are faster than others... i.e. the line graph is fast, the stacked bar is slow. Maybe a limit on the heavy graph types?

No workout today. Just wasn't into it at all. Stubbed my toe. Had too much to do. I just worked through the evening.