Author: Ben

Another good day around the new house.

• Played McGregor for the first time in the morning. Played the back first, went 41 / 46 with a tasty snowman on 7. It’s so April. The course layout is great, just need some time to get the greens smoothed out and rolling quite a bit quicker.
• Lunch at Panera, Crispini and a Greek salad. All in all pretty good.
• Packed up, drove back to Tarrytown, stopped in New Palz for dinner.
• Dinner at La Stazione. Nice place with fairly good food. Sitting outside for dinner is so nice.
• Back at the apartment in Tarrytown. Sigh.

Ah, so good to be back home.

• 75 and sunny today in Saratoga Springs. Warmer than SJC or LAS. Just a perfect spring day.
• Met the neighboors across the street, Dave and Amanda. They got us a nice little housewarming present, cookies and sweets from a local bakery.
• Took a little exploratory drive over to Cambridge and Greenwich (pronounced Green-wich up here) and found a great silver place in Cambridge (Chasing Silver) and a great local market in Greenwich (Greenwich Local Market). Mandy got some earrings and we picked up some local goat cheese, honey, and chocolate ice cream. All taste pretty darn amazing. Yay for local foods!

Ah, travel.

• Yesterday ended up being a 3:45AM to 2:00AM day. Note: don’t wear your contacts the whole time.
• Flying back. SJC -> LAS, LAS -> ALB. You can track my flight from LAS -> ALB.
• Pulled Dojo 0.9 into our extern and I’m working on integrating it in a branch. Yay for long flights.
• Dead Like Me is a fantastic show.
• I love flying Southwest. I havn’t done it much in the past, as they don’t really serve the NYC area, but they fly out of Albany. The flight attendants had us entertained the whole ride from SJC -> LAS and most of it from LAS -> ALB. I have mixed feelings on the ABC boarding though… So far I think I like it, though I havn’t boarded as a C yet.
• Today was the second day in a row I didn’t get into bed until 2AM. I need some sleep.

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A day late, but better late than never.

• Tracked down part of the slowness in building and rendering items. A good part of it stems from hooking up events in dojo. If you call dojo.event.connect passing in a srcObj, srcFunc, and a target func like this dojo.event.connect(foo, "onclick", function(evt) { /* blah */ }), interpolateArgs names the function using dojo.lang.nameAnonFunc, which ends up walking the window object looking for an instance of the function passed in. Doing this 500 times turns out to be a bit slow, averaging something like 15ms per call (Firefox, profiled by Firebug, on a MacBook Pro 2GHz). By changing our code to call an existing function on an existing object, we trimmed 9 seconds from our 12 second per 200 items render time. Not bad. Still lots of room for improvement. Currently building the stuff with DOM methods, so switching to building straight HTML should give us a pretty good speed boost.

  Need to check and see how connect behaves in 0.9.

• Food report:
  • Small mint mocha from Coffee Society for breakfast. Much tastier than the ‘bucks version (chocolate seems better and the espresso is much much better) and free wireless. They make a pretty good macchiato too. Nice to sit outside and enjoy a warm beverage and free wifi.
  • “Salad” at LeBoulanger.
  • Outback for dinner. Alice Springs and some soup. Nothing special. Fun times looking at houses around the bay area, compared to Saratoga Springs. Chip needs a $15 million house to house his $1000 pony.
• Tomorrow, fishing! First time out on a six person sportfishing boat… Hope the waves are small…