Analog Science Fiction & Fact runs 3 to 4 part serials pretty regularly. I don't know whether the sum of the parts would be the length of a full-blown novel, but it's something. It's a pretty effective gimmick to keep me subscribing, especially when they run a really good serial, like "Shootout at the Nokai Corral" by Rajnar Vajra.
Sorry if I didn't explain this well. I was practically rushing out the door to work as I typed.;-)
I guess I don't understand why interaction implies "client-side". The interaction comes into play with simple HTML <form>'s. It's pretty straightforward, really. The user can still pick out the system, metric, and style of the chart, so there's the interaction right there.
It would be different if your server was under a load and you wanted to push the computation out to the client. But for these constaints, I don't see why a server-side solution is unacceptable.
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I rarely comment, but I can't help it here. I work for Wal-Mart, and I'm on a team that needed to be able to graph a system's performance (CPU/mem/network/disk usage, et cetera). Similar situation to what you're in, I think. I'm not sure what they were using beforehand, but everybody, managers included, is extremely happy that they've switched to Ploticus. They rave about how fast it generates a graph. It's very, very flexible. And it's open source; I noticed a subtle bug, and a few days after notifying the author he gave me a fix.
We have the raw data points coming in from a server-side scripting language (proprietary, unfortunately). These points are passed to a Perl script which parses the data and stores it in a format Ploticus can recognize. It also generates the configuration file used by Ploticus.
I'd really highly recommend Ploticus. No plugins needed. Once you figure it out, it's a dream.
I have no lead on whether this was planned by the filming crew (I assume it was), but shooting starts three years after shooting started for Ep. 1, to the day.
Before launching into debate on whether this is a good or bad omen (I'll leave that to the repliers), I'll go on to my next morsel.
Orson Scott Card made a review of TPM, and until I read it, I didn't realize how precisely that was how I felt. Read his review, he has some very insightful comments. It's at http://www.hatrack.com/os c/reviews/summer-movies-99.shtml. Enjoy.
My question is: how did they find this out? Did they see a telescope looking back at them from twice as far away and realized it was their reflection, or what? Don't get me wrong, I'm not questioning/.'s sources, I'm just wondering if NASA really is omniscient or something. And if so, could they please share the secret with me???
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Analog Science Fiction & Fact runs 3 to 4 part serials pretty regularly. I don't know whether the sum of the parts would be the length of a full-blown novel, but it's something. It's a pretty effective gimmick to keep me subscribing, especially when they run a really good serial, like "Shootout at the Nokai Corral" by Rajnar Vajra.
Sorry if I didn't explain this well. I was practically rushing out the door to work as I typed. ;-)
I guess I don't understand why interaction implies "client-side". The interaction comes into play with simple HTML <form>'s. It's pretty straightforward, really. The user can still pick out the system, metric, and style of the chart, so there's the interaction right there.
It would be different if your server was under a load and you wanted to push the computation out to the client. But for these constaints, I don't see why a server-side solution is unacceptable.
Advertisement: for more info check out Ploticus' home page at <http://ploticus.sf.net/>.
I rarely comment, but I can't help it here. I work for Wal-Mart, and I'm on a team that needed to be able to graph a system's performance (CPU/mem/network/disk usage, et cetera). Similar situation to what you're in, I think. I'm not sure what they were using beforehand, but everybody, managers included, is extremely happy that they've switched to Ploticus. They rave about how fast it generates a graph. It's very, very flexible. And it's open source; I noticed a subtle bug, and a few days after notifying the author he gave me a fix.
We have the raw data points coming in from a server-side scripting language (proprietary, unfortunately). These points are passed to a Perl script which parses the data and stores it in a format Ploticus can recognize. It also generates the configuration file used by Ploticus.
I'd really highly recommend Ploticus. No plugins needed. Once you figure it out, it's a dream.
Before launching into debate on whether this is a good or bad omen (I'll leave that to the repliers), I'll go on to my next morsel.
Orson Scott Card made a review of TPM, and until I read it, I didn't realize how precisely that was how I felt. Read his review, he has some very insightful comments. It's at http://www.hatrack.com/os c/reviews/summer-movies-99.shtml. Enjoy.
My question is: how did they find this out? Did they see a telescope looking back at them from twice as far away and realized it was their reflection, or what? Don't get me wrong, I'm not questioning /.'s sources, I'm just wondering if NASA really is omniscient or something. And if so, could they please share the secret with me???