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20030804 Monday August 04, 2003

Enthusiasm Fading My enthusiasm for maintaining this blog is fading. Not because I don't like to blog and discover new things, but because I'm not discovering anything new. The root of my lack-of-discovery phase is because my day job has become incredibly boring. Not because of what I'm doing, but because I'm not doing anything. Sure, there's documentation and JavaDoc cleanup to do - but this stuff numbs the mind. There's no compiling. There's no joy in making something work. I'll be onto a new gig soon since next Friday is my last day. And I'll tell you what - I can't freakin' wait.

The deeper root of the problem is my obsession with productivity. Even though I'm getting paid to "mothball" the project, I feel inadequate for not learning anything new. I need to be productive to enjoy my day at work. Isn't that sad?!

If I'm good, I'll convince myself to be unproductive and to take a week or two off before starting the next cool project. From August 15th - September 1st, that's my goal. Who knows if my future employer/client will go for it, but it sure would be nice. Posted in General at Aug 04 2003, 08:04:41 PM MDT 1 Comment

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Well, if you want something to roll over in your mind, you could consider my suggestion (sparked by Dave's blogging on Rollers performance) of adding GZip compression to OSCache. I think it will 1. Reduce the memory consumption per page of OSCache 2. Do the obvious less time to transfer the page thing 3. Improve the actual performance of the cache, unless the cache is constantly being invalidated. Check it out and comment/vote on the issue at http://jira.opensymphony.com/secure/ViewIssue.jspa?key=CACHE-49! :-)

Posted by Paul Rivers on August 05, 2003 at 12:37 AM MDT #

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