It’s only one month before my pet project becomes one year old. This is what my files’ timestamp claims though.

QueueMatrix will turn one year old on May 15, 2007. I don’t exactly know what to call it but here’s how it works. It processes flat files to structured data then displayed as human readable data. Those flat files are produced by a cluster of Asterisk (VoIP) servers then callhome to a database. As the year chugged along, a bunch of features were requested and messy patches were done.

I wrote before that this “system” will be used as a basis for the salaries of around 200 people. I can’t mess up anymore.

My long term plans for it include:

• Data warehousing - Close to one year, the size of the database is now at ~1.3GB. Although still small, I want to purge this data and warehouse it (should prevent tampering too).
• More distribution of processes - I should explain this in another post. The current system runs on a desktop machine. Sometimes, it gets overloaded. The new system is being tested with meaner Javascript, using my own version of JSON and less backend processing. It’s now threaded too (in some way).
• Prepare for servers in different geographic locations - I’ve heard of such plans where another server will be installed …in another timezone. More timezone calculation headaches and that friggin’ DST.
• Dissolve manual processes - I can’t disclose too much about this issue but there are still manual processes that I want to remove.
• Tighter security
• Automate installation processes
• Find a better way to index files - I’m so ashamed of my solution it makes me cringe. What I did was have one directory scanned, processed and stored to the database every X number of minutes. The ugly part is that before scanning, the table is flushed instead of appending the new files found. Ewww.

I just found a GMail Notifier for Gnome! It’s installed and working on my laptop running FC6. Should I write anything else?

Many thanks to Bradley Worley for this indespensible little app.

I had this beautiful dream last night. So beautiful that if it went on, it would make me very depressed. It was good that my dad woke me up. He asked me to help him move some rocks to Tagaytay.

He bought a lot, which I suspect, is for their retirement home. It’s at Ponderosa Heights and the lot is pretty big (corner lot too). My estimate is that it’s larger than the one in our place at Alabang. The place is like Alabang Hills too. Only that the slopes are steeper.

It had a view to the South where you could see People’s Park. I don’t know anything about Feng Shui so I can’t tell if that means good fortune. The place is breezy and cool (we were there around 10.00).

I found out that electricity is still provided through overhead power lines. I was hoping that most engineers by this time already thought of subterrain power grids. Specially that the place can get really windy when a typhoon strikes.

This kind of thing is some sort of quality time for me and my dad since we really don’t get to spend a lot of time together. I just noticed that today. We built a lot of things together like the fish pond without fishes at the back of our house here in Laguna.

I think I still have something to write but I forgot what it was. Oh well.

I just remembered. I want to mess with the blueprint and integrate gigabit ethernet ports to the electricals. I’m betting that there’ll be TVs that will have gigabit ethernet ports or maybe for the next generation of iTVs. Or maybe I might build a Linux-based media server. I do hope that there’s DSL in the area.

I’ve been trying to catch up on the feeds that I subscribed to but I guess I’m watching too many things. One of Sir Nash’s recent posts made me realize that I reached Visayas and Mindanao out of my own hard work (sort of).

This makes me want to go up north.

Didn’t get to attend iBlog again. Anyway, checkout what people are saying about it right now.

Many thanks to Joyz for sharing the info.

Skarlet is the former vocalist of the Ska Band, Put3ska, who eventually came out of the closet and pursued a career in hardcore Jazz Standards. She’s one of the newest recording artists of Candid Records (yes, she already has an album out now, Skarlet:The Powder Room Stories, go grab a copy!) and her band is just so great.

Skarlet plays at Chakiks every Thursday night. Chakiks is at CityGolf Plaza, Julia Vargas Ave., Ortigas Center, Pasig City (beside Home Depot).

Just another quick one. I’m starting to find GAIM’s Buddy Pounce feature very handy.

I use it to send a message when a contact goes online. Very useful when I need to tell someone something that needs realtime response. Saves me the time of checking my buddy list everytime and looking out for notifications. Here’s an article to get you started.

I didn’t know that the local PHP users’ group has been more active lately. Details are a bit confusing as of now finalized (as of April 22, 2007).

PHPUGPH EB
14.00-17.00 April 28, 2007
Mob Café
4th Level, Market! Market!, Global City
Philippines

More info at this thread also posted at the PHP website.

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Take only 6-7 units. I’m out of major subjects and school has become extremely boring for me. Having only ALGOCOM last term as a major (also, the fact that that course is theory) it was dull as hell.

I was on full load and as the term ends this week, it looks like that I’m going to pass only NSTP. I’m not even sure if I’ll pass NSTP! It’s not a very bad thing though. Flunking 5 subjects doesn’t mean I didn’t learn anything. Besides, dad already hinted over dinner some time ago that he won’t be paying for next term already.

I’m saving ALGOCOM for last. My laziness struck again when it was time to work on the sorting algorithm demo.

Yes, I’m also going to fail PETWODA (dance). I really prefered that we just danced. I prefer to look stupid than write a reaction paper to dance films. I’m that lazy.

Another reason (or excuse) is that, I still have no exact plan on what to do after I graduate. At least in school, I have something to do and I have a job that I enjoy.

It’s from my vacation that I also learned how lucky I am to have my job. Ramel was stuck to the regular sunrise ’til sunset job. Sans had irregular hours like mine but hers was hard as hell. The last time we hung out together, she was hoarse like a donkey.

I’m not going to drop out too. Doing that would be accepting some sort of defeat. I didn’t take any of my final exams this week except for INTECAL and JPRIZAL which we had in advance.

Looking forward to next term with INTECAL and ANAGEOM.