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  • Sparse (Pseudo) Infinite Grid Data Structure for Web Game

    - by Ming
    I'm considering trying to make a game that takes place on an essentially infinite grid. The grid is very sparse. Certain small regions of relatively high density. Relatively few isolated nonempty cells. The amount of the grid in use is too large to implement naively but probably smallish by "big data" standards (I'm not trying to map the Internet or anything like that) This needs to be easy to persist. Here are the operations I may want to perform (reasonably efficiently) on this grid: Ask for some small rectangular region of cells and all their contents (a player's current neighborhood) Set individual cells or blit small regions (the player is making a move) Ask for the rough shape or outline/silhouette of some larger rectangular regions (a world map or region preview) Find some regions with approximately a given density (player spawning location) Approximate shortest path through gaps of at most some small constant empty spaces per hop (it's OK to be a bad approximation often, but not OK to keep heading the wrong direction searching) Approximate convex hull for a region Here's the catch: I want to do this in a web app. That is, I would prefer to use existing data storage (perhaps in the form of a relational database) and relatively little external dependency (preferably avoiding the need for a persistent process). Guys, what advice can you give me on actually implementing this? How would you do this if the web-app restrictions weren't in place? How would you modify that if they were? Thanks a lot, everyone!

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  • Mongrel not using latest deployed code, despite multiple restarts

    - by ming yeow
    What could be the potential reasons why mongrel does not use the latest code in the ~/current branch? The code changes are in the MODELs. The code changes in the CONTROLLERS TAKE EFFECT. I tried the following: god restart app deploying several times manually stopping mongrel cluster, deleting the pid files, and starting them again Anyone has similar experiences? Where could the server be potentially caching the model files?

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  • Email notifications of exceptions happening in a Python app?

    - by ming yeow
    Hi folks, I want to set up email notifications when there is an error happening in my application. In ruby, there is a very elegant solution called ExceptionNotifier, which wraps around the exception handler and uses the built-in mailer to send an email. What is the best way of doing this in Python? I know that this is a very common issue, so would love for any tips that you folks can share! PS: Code samples, pointers to modules would be AWESOME! Thanks!

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  • Dummies guide to locking in innodb

    - by ming yeow
    The typical documentation on locking in innodb is way too confusing. I think it will be of great value to have a "dummies guide to innodb locking" I will start, and I will gather all responses as a wiki: The column needs to be indexed before row level locking applies. EXAMPLE: delete row where column1=10; will lock up the table unless column1 is indexed

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  • Retrieving all objects in code upfront for performance reasons

    - by ming yeow
    How do you folks retrieve all objects in code upfront? I figure you can increase performance if you bundle all the model calls together? This makes for a bigger deal, especially if your DB cannot keep everything in memory def hitDBSeperately { get X users ...code get Y users... code get Z users... code } Versus: def hitDBInSingleCall { get X+Y+Z users code for X code for Y... }

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  • Urgent Problem: Production site is breaking because of cached routes

    - by ming yeow
    Hi folks, i have an urgent problem. Essentially, my routing works on my localhost. But when i deployed this to production, the routes does not seem to work correctly. For example, given a new route "/invites" - sometimes i will get a 404, and sometimes it will work correctly. I suspect there is some caching going on somewhere, but i am not sure. Can someone help? UPDATE: when a page is not found (when it is supposed to be ok ) Processing UsersController#network (for 67.180.78.126 at 2010-06-01 09:59:31) [GET] Parameters: {"id"="new"} ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches "/comm/role_playing_games" with {}): app/controllers/application_controller.rb:383:in prev_page_label' app/controllers/application_controller.rb:238:in log_timed_info' app/controllers/users_controller.rb:155:in network' app/controllers/users_controller.rb:151:in network' app/controllers/application_controller.rb:44:in turn_on_query_caching' app/controllers/application_controller.rb:43:in turn_on_query_caching' app/controllers/application_controller.rb:42:in turn_on_query_caching' app/controllers/application_controller.rb:41:in turn_on_query_caching' app/controllers/application_controller.rb:40:in turn_on_query_caching' app/controllers/application_controller.rb:39:in turn_on_query_caching' haml (3.0.6) lib/sass/plugin/rack.rb:41:in `call' Rendering /mnt/app/releases/20100524233313/public/404.html (404 Not Found)

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  • Facebook-like invitation page for my categorization service

    - by ming yeow
    Hi folks, i am working on a categorization service. I want the experience to behave similarly to Facebook's invite/tagging function Does anyone have any experience implementing this? This includes: autocompleting based on list below if auto-complete does not turn up anything, give chance to do something else with that data Would be super happy to hear any experiences, plugins that might be useful in helping me build this out

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  • Defining a different primary key in Mongomapper

    - by ming yeow
    I am defining a primary key in MongoMapper. class B key :_id, string key :externalId, string end The problem is that everything i add a new record in B, it appears that I need to explicity specify the _id, when it is already defined in the external id B.new(:_id=>"123", :external_id=>"123 ) That does not quite make sense. There should be a way to specify externalId as the primary key, no?

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  • Optimize innodb table

    - by ming yeow
    When i run optimize table on a innodb table, i get this message instead. does it mean that the table has already been optimized, but in a different manner? "table | optimize | note | Table does not support optimize, doing recreate + analyze instead |"

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  • Mysql- "FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK" started automatically

    - by ming yeow
    I would like to understand how this happened. I was running a query that would take a long time, but should not lock up any table. However, my dbs were practically down - it seems like it was being locked up by "FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK" 03:21:31 select type_id, count(*) from guid_target_infos group by type_id 02:38:11 select type_id, count(*) from guid_infos group by type_id 02:24:29 FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK But i did not start this command. can someone tell me why it was started automatically?

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