<cf_rant> I am currently watching Big Brother 4 in the UK. I like the accents, and I've learned some cool slang terms and phrases. (admittedly, I don't leave the office much). It's also just something to have on in the background while working.
They have a website that accompanies the show. http://channel4.com/bigbrother/ It hardly ever freaking works! And the times it does, 50% of that time is spent waiting for the pages to load! We're on a 2MB cable connection that is running at an average of 4MB, so it isn't us. It's built in JSP. I believe the DB is Oracle. (one of the DB admins (?) is on the UK list[I have not sent this to him asking why, as he hates BB]) The excuse is likely too much traffic. TOO MUCH TRAFFIC??????? Bah. The next rant is about Big Brother South Africa. Now I only know of this show, because they are trading one of the UK contestants for a south African one for a week. So off I wander to check out BBSA's website. Written in ASP. http://www.bigbrothersa.com Guess what? It's FREAKING SLOW. MUCH MUCH slower than the UK. Is it getting a ton of hits right now? Likely. They've just announced all this in the past day or so, so the attention is at full swing. There's also apparently some sex going on in the SA house, so people are trying to see what's going on. I haven't even delved deeper to see where the SA site is hosted. I understand bandwidth out of Africa might not be so hot to trot ... The real reason for this ranting? The next time someone says CF can't scale or CF is slow, they can go stick a ramrod up their butt, because there's bad programmers and technologies and hardware configurations EVERYWHERE. Even when the company apparently has tons of dosh. (you don't even want to know how much BB3 made Channel 4 last year here in the UK) </cf_rant> You guys know about that last line anyway ... But now I feel better ;) Muffin anyone? Cheers, Erika ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
