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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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22 October 2002 - 4:51 pm
Apartment decorations are in progress. michael and I were up late last night working on a pair of Java programs that let us interface with terraserver and join a bunch of terraserver images to create one large image. Sadly, michael's image joining code doesn't seem robust enough to handle 3,072 200x200 pixel images. At least it wasn't last night. As I type this, the program, after having been told to set its heap size at 1500MB, is churning away on the images. If this works, the end product will be a 42"x32" poster of St. Louis printed at 300dpi. It's been crunching away on abstract for a few hours now (I haven't been able to check it since 2:30), so I'm hoping its done. But more likely it seems like it will have run out of memory.
Speaking of terraserver, it seems like they released a new version recently. You can search by address, which makes it easy for the navigationally-challenged among you to find your house.
Posted by on 22 October 2002 at 4:51 PM
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I should point out that it isn't michael's code that's causing problems, it's the fact that the problem is very, very hard and all we can do is throw hardware at it and hope for the best.
Posted by david on 22 October 2002 - 8:20 PM