I second Simon's suggestion. Polling is a waste of resources -- it keeps CPU cycles from more useful processes and keeps the hard disk spinning for no good...
... I don't know what the picture is on MacOS or Linux but Windows certainly provides a way to do this. Using C# and .NET it was a doddle, shouldn't be too...
I think it was related to the lack of strong x-platform support, though I still have to think that support has to be there for macs as well since apple has...
Sam I don't think it was a cross-platform issue. I just tried to find it with Google by searching Scripting News but didn't come up with anything relevant....
... Brent Simmons: "FNSubscribe is what you're looking for on OS X." Steve Zellers points out that this routine requires the cooperation of the program doing...
You may of seen DJ's weblog yesterday[1] talking about conneg (aka HTTP Content Negotiation) for RSS. I've just tweaked my copy of the Radio aggregator to do...
... In my xml.rss.readService I had changed the same code (to achieve a different effect) as follows: new (tabletype, @headers); headers.["Accept-Encoding"] =...
Let's keep exploring. Where we're at. We can't do it on the Mac. But some of us use Windows. How does Windows do notification? What are the limits? What ...
This is way below the windowing layer. It's gutsy low-level stuff. The functionality should just pass up to the script level, have a table of folders that the...
You I was thinking that perhaps there is a way to do an analog behavior on Mac os x, I wonder if there might be a lower demand type of unix process that could...
Radio is already doing that, that's how upstreaming works and the code is really tightly optimized. Then we fall back to the original message in this thread,...
I understand your point on this, you know the inside better then most outsiders (welcome to the outside by the way :) Another thought on the mac side of...
I'll add some more spice to the sauce.... How about a smart fallback on the polling rate. Something like: Hmm, this folder hasn't changed in the last minute,...
Ralph Hempel
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Mar 2, 2003 8:45 pm
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Ooooh that is sexy!! These are the kinds of ideas I hoped would pop out of raising the question.. Dave ... From: "Ralph Hempel" <rhempel@...>...
And it parallels what you did with the aggregator as well doesn't it? Or was that the instant outline polling?? Didn't weblogs.com do some thing similar as...
*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* Sam, I believe it was in the Instant Outline polling. And I agree that solution...
BTW, exactly how optimised is the polling system in Radio? Is it in the kernel, or is it done in script? A quick bit of C code using readdir() should be able...
Now that I'm getting the Radio scripting bug, I have a couple questions on callbacks: 1. Is there a callback for the event when the user subscribes to a new ...
... http://frontier.userland.com/tools contains a description of the recommended way of registering callbacks. AFAIK there's no *collected* documentation of...
Thanks, Roger. I had found the first one, but I didn't know about the second one. It sure would be nice to have (more) complete documentation of Radio...
... Boy were you right about this. My efforts to write a simple Windows app in 'C' using Visual Studio .NET have so far come to naught. In fact, C no longer...
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