Archive for June, 2004
Not JDK’s Fault
Turns out the memory leak was not JDK’s fault. It was Tomcat’s. Upgrading to the latest version solved the problem. We’re pretty sure at least.
Rollout for the lane-beta site should take place tomorrow morning. I’m still adding in features to the metasearch and Phil has come up with a good way to leverage the hit [...]
Whew… JDK’s Bug, Not Lane’s
Charles was able to determine that the memory leak was actually a JDK 1.4.1 StringBuffer bug. We seem to have fixed it by upgrading to JDK 1.4.3. Hooray!
I’m now working on a statistics module so we can see how people use the site. Nothing fancy… just dump results from the database into Excel spreadsheets so [...]
Federated Search Countdown
Okay, two days to our soft rollout of the new website and federated search. We are seeing OutOfMemoryExceptions with the new production machine (leak or not enough allocated?) and something (Tomcat or Apache, we think) is modifying the HTML that comes back by adding a line feed in tags, causing pages to not display (only [...]
The Gift Economy
Interesting article at Newsforge on the Gift Economy. Like most other new articles on gift cultures, it cites the scientific community as an example. While this is true in the “perfect world” sense, I always wonder how much of the “exchange economy” has crept into the way science is done.
The first person I heard talking [...]
Identured Information
Richard Crawford, in his weblog, The Literate Penguin, questions the meaning of the cliche “Information wants to be free.” I wrote a comment there, but found the question interesting enough to put it here too (so that I can find it again easily).
My comment was that information is social. All knowledge (which really isn’t the [...]
Federated Searching Misconceptions
I found a link on Catalogablog about an article from Information Today that tells The Truth about Federated Searching. I’d have to agree wholeheartedly with everything it has to say despite working on my library’s own version of a federated search. To be fair, the point that relevancy ranking is not totally relevant is not [...]