I suppose (one) of the most frustrating things about the internet is when web hosts and servers go down. When I was with MD this was a regular and embarrassing experience (as a contract web developer) so much so that I changed to Jumba last year and have had a decent experience (I’ve used Site 5, Server101 and OzHosting too and Jumba has been the best).
Unfortunately, that feeling of frustration with Jumba, my current web host has come back.
So far over the last few hours at least the hosting has been up and down. And now it looks like a fault was found and they’re migrating accounts to a new server.
I hate to kick them while they’re down - I’m mainly pissed off because I decided to spend all of my Saturday night getting a project ready for go-live - and I appreciate all they do in terms of high level of quality of service however, I can’t help but feel like this:
Brand new, Dell PowerEdge SC1950 servers, featuring the latest Intel Quad Core processors, DDR2 ECC RAM, Dual SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) Hard Drives with onboard hardware RAID1 mirroring and hot-swap capabilities. All hardware is securely housed in the TransACT data centre in Canberra.
Is a bit of BS. If the servers have redundant capabilities, why wasn’t the fault fixed sooner?
While doing some shopping at Melbourne Central I couldn’t help but notice the number of tourists and visitors checking out the big clock under the cone. I remember before the renovation, the was a chain that ran from the clock and ended a few floors up. For those who live under a rock, at the top of the hour the clock plays Waltzing Matilda.
I also remember the early 90’s architecture of Melbourne Central, while the centre deserved a refurbishment, I reckon the current deconstructed look will probably go out of fashion soon. But I digress.
Could this clock be the most photographed object in Melbourne? Next to Flinders St and St Patrick’s Cathedral?
Fuzzy logic is a concept that has been around for a long time. Engineers have always tried to develop systems that can essentially ‘think’ for themselves. In the background however the Engineers have coded the logic which includes complicated conditional requirements that have to be met. Some systems have the ability to modify the behavior by analysing historical data.
The question is: is it possible to create a complete Fuzzy search function using PHP which can help you accurately find what you are looking for?
Currently, I’m working on a catalogue database. The catalogue is a massive system with a complicated category structure and huge product database.
When I started building the system, It was initially designed to feature a keyword search function. You would type a phrase in and it would only match exact results - of whatever you typed in. Since then I’ve kinda started to become obsessive over this…
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