Next week, I start my new job. The one thing that I am not really looking forward to is a return to Java Enterprise Edition development. While I've been on overhead for my current--and soon to be former!--employer, I have had the opportunity to do a lot of experimentation with Perl and JavaScript. My development environment for the stuff that I have built on my own in the last nine months has largely consisted of Apache web server, MySQL, Perl and a web browser. The memory footprint for that is around 100MB-200MB, and that's probably being liberal on the specs. Back at my previous group at my employer, where I did Java EE development, my developer laptop frequently had 1.5GB-1.6GB of memory allocated for all of the "enterprise software" that it had to run to simulate a development environment. If it isn't the size of the Enterprise, it doesn't belong in your enterprise, you might say...
Rachel and I have an Apple TV in the mail. It's one of the new 160GB models, and we got it for over 50% off. How? We used up most of our rewards points with MyPoints. I can't wait for it to get here. I ripped about a hundred DVDs and converted them to fit on my iPod Touch, and will be able to transfer them to the Apple TV.
One feature that Apple hasn't put into their iPod/Apple TV/iTunes software is the ability to tell devices to swap content. It'd be less of an issue if these devices had expandable storage, but in the mean time, it'd be cool to be able to sync your iPod and Apple TV to your PC or Mac, and tell iTunes to swap a few dozen movies from your Apple TV to your machine in exchange for new ones, and then to swap out some of the ones on your iPod in a similar manner.
One last thing. I tried out the new template module caching feature in Beta 3 of Movable Type 4.15, and it is rock solid for performance improvements. When turned on for the header, footer and sidebar modules, it took about four and a half minutes to rebuild about 1,200 posts.
Rachel and I have an Apple TV in the mail. It's one of the new 160GB models, and we got it for over 50% off. How? We used up most of our rewards points with MyPoints. I can't wait for it to get here. I ripped about a hundred DVDs and converted them to fit on my iPod Touch, and will be able to transfer them to the Apple TV.
One feature that Apple hasn't put into their iPod/Apple TV/iTunes software is the ability to tell devices to swap content. It'd be less of an issue if these devices had expandable storage, but in the mean time, it'd be cool to be able to sync your iPod and Apple TV to your PC or Mac, and tell iTunes to swap a few dozen movies from your Apple TV to your machine in exchange for new ones, and then to swap out some of the ones on your iPod in a similar manner.
One last thing. I tried out the new template module caching feature in Beta 3 of Movable Type 4.15, and it is rock solid for performance improvements. When turned on for the header, footer and sidebar modules, it took about four and a half minutes to rebuild about 1,200 posts.
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