I’ve just added a new column to all the tables on the software page to say whether the software is free or shareware.
Let me know if you spot any errors there.
Chris
Archive for September, 2009
Freeware
Friday, September 25th, 2009Even more
Monday, September 14th, 2009I’ve been busy out the back, working on some of the internal mechanisms of the tune search.
Anyway, the good news is that not only is the search faster now, but also it ignores accented characters. Thus a search for, say, “bourree” will also find tunes with “bourrée” in the title (and vice-versa).
Which is handy because not everyone is strict about how they add accents.
Oh, and while I was at it, I extended the scope of the search to add another 10,000 tunes which I discovered tucked away in a corner. The tune search now knows about 47,500 tunes!
Chris
Bourrée
Crashing bore
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009Well, I’m tentatively going to say that I think I’ve fixed the problem of the site crashing.
The boring technical details (for anyone else who has a servlet based website and is seeing out of memory errors) seem to be that the java inflater was not releasing memory promptly enough. (See here, and the official Sun Java bug report here.)
Anyway, once I’d figured out the possible cause, and after I’d changed the site so that it no longer needs the inflater classes, it hasn’t crashed since. In fact, the site was up for a whole 10 days between 23rd August and 1st September (when I restarted it to include another 3,000 tunes in the tune search).
The nature of this kind of problem means that I can’t absolutely guarantee it’s fixed … but so far, so good.
Chris