Andy Kopciuch's Blog
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Summer
Summer just takes your attention from normal routine into "everything else". It has been a pretty busy summer. I have not been at the keyboard churning out code like I'd like, but A lot has happened. I'll try to summarize in chronological order.
L&Y launched the new digital processing system in Toolkit near the end of June. It has gone fairly well. Changing entire processes is never as easy as you hope. I am glad to say it seems to be rolling smoothly. Still scanning, processed nightly, delivery and filing handled in a central place. Thumbnail previews, assignment, emailing, full preview (replacing adobe, foxit). The full size preview is not overly fast, as the page numbering calculations seems very slow in FPDI. I'm looking into caching images, and optimizing as best I can. In the future. Right now it works, now we can make it work better.
Anouk, and Micheal were up in Calgary during Stampede times. We went out one night, fun times. Talked a little business. In general the bike stuff has been placed on the "out of sight out of mind" table. The fall is going to be focus back on there (I hope).
I went to Vancouver in July, stayed with Heath for a few days. Was good to catch up. Drove down to Seattle, and stayed in Auburn for the Enumclaw highland games. Was super hot. 40 degrees, and totally dehydrated. The band got second both days to New West Minster Police. We did win drumming on Sunday though. I drove back Monday, and got ultra sick. Cough , cold, flu, fever, chills and shakes. It was really terrible. Recovered now, but I'm still burned out.
I just got back from a whirlwind trip to Winnipeg with Ray & Marlon. We met Les, and saw his new facility. Went out partying. It was bang bang, in and out. 30 hours plus on the highway in 3 days. Was a fun time though. Hangin out at the Toad, and hoooligans. We'll be back sometime. I did talk with Les for a while, and he was raving about the google OCR stuff. I'll have to check into it for all the document stuff we've been dealing with.
We've been playing server transitions for a while, and have the web server built up. It needs to be re-done, as Jeff made a really really tiny boot partitiopn, and I'm afraid with using optimized kernels, it's a little bit small to be safe. Nothing is running on it yet, so no harm it redoing it.
Band is rolling agina, doubling up the practices for the next 2 weeks. High river on Sat, Calgary / Canmore next weekend. I just need the fall to get here. Then maybe I can feel like I can start getting things done again. Johns birthday on Friday, Ted's Birthday long weekend (Sept 6). My sister quit her job. There's just so much goin on. My body feels fine, my head just can't get into anything. Oh yeah ... Aaron moved to Vancouver a few weeks ago. Geez ... so much goin on, no wonder I can't get any work done. ;) ΒΆ 4:38:00 PM 0 comments
L&Y launched the new digital processing system in Toolkit near the end of June. It has gone fairly well. Changing entire processes is never as easy as you hope. I am glad to say it seems to be rolling smoothly. Still scanning, processed nightly, delivery and filing handled in a central place. Thumbnail previews, assignment, emailing, full preview (replacing adobe, foxit). The full size preview is not overly fast, as the page numbering calculations seems very slow in FPDI. I'm looking into caching images, and optimizing as best I can. In the future. Right now it works, now we can make it work better.
Anouk, and Micheal were up in Calgary during Stampede times. We went out one night, fun times. Talked a little business. In general the bike stuff has been placed on the "out of sight out of mind" table. The fall is going to be focus back on there (I hope).
I went to Vancouver in July, stayed with Heath for a few days. Was good to catch up. Drove down to Seattle, and stayed in Auburn for the Enumclaw highland games. Was super hot. 40 degrees, and totally dehydrated. The band got second both days to New West Minster Police. We did win drumming on Sunday though. I drove back Monday, and got ultra sick. Cough , cold, flu, fever, chills and shakes. It was really terrible. Recovered now, but I'm still burned out.
I just got back from a whirlwind trip to Winnipeg with Ray & Marlon. We met Les, and saw his new facility. Went out partying. It was bang bang, in and out. 30 hours plus on the highway in 3 days. Was a fun time though. Hangin out at the Toad, and hoooligans. We'll be back sometime. I did talk with Les for a while, and he was raving about the google OCR stuff. I'll have to check into it for all the document stuff we've been dealing with.
We've been playing server transitions for a while, and have the web server built up. It needs to be re-done, as Jeff made a really really tiny boot partitiopn, and I'm afraid with using optimized kernels, it's a little bit small to be safe. Nothing is running on it yet, so no harm it redoing it.
Band is rolling agina, doubling up the practices for the next 2 weeks. High river on Sat, Calgary / Canmore next weekend. I just need the fall to get here. Then maybe I can feel like I can start getting things done again. Johns birthday on Friday, Ted's Birthday long weekend (Sept 6). My sister quit her job. There's just so much goin on. My body feels fine, my head just can't get into anything. Oh yeah ... Aaron moved to Vancouver a few weeks ago. Geez ... so much goin on, no wonder I can't get any work done. ;) ΒΆ 4:38:00 PM 0 comments
