Lab 6

All done with 6 and passed. Used C# in vs.net with a json library and SQS library for C# so it wasn't so bad.

Daemon

Just put my processes in a true daemon and they are working great. Can't test on the production website since it looks like there is a another image process that is not sleeping.

Lab 5

Finished Lab 5. The version of ImageMagick for Fedora 8 was missing a nice flag for creating the correct thumbnail so I ended up installing a version for Fedora 9. Also it was a pain to get the python plugin installed so I made command line calls instead.

Lab 4

Cleaned up lab 4. I need to get the RawMessage vs no RawMessage question answered. Currently I have to read the messages using RawMessage but do I also need to send them as such? Is there a standard the class has decided on?

Ruby vs. Python

I didn't know either of these languages before I started this class but now that I'm halfway through I'm thinking I have miss something not going with Ruby. This summer may be a good time to learn Ruby.

Lab 3 is done

Wasn't too bad. Since I'm new to python the hardest part was learning the syntax and working with new libraries. boto and simplejson worked really well with each other and building the return statements took no time at all. Time to start Lab 4.

Lab 1 and 2

Did both these labs together since I waited so long to implement the bootstrapping. Bootstrapping was a new idea for me so it took awhile to wrap my head around it.