Radio UserLand, RSS, Weblog Tools and Design
Sunday, July 27, 2003Re: Can not select or deselect Tools. Try running this from the QuickScript window.
table.emptyTable (@user.tools.databases)
You may need to restart Radio afterwards. This will reset all tools to active. By Andy Fragen. [Radio UserLand Messages]
Blogging For Exposure
So you're blogging. That's really great. You can say you have these altruistic motives for doing so, but at the end of the day, you're doing it to get exposure. This is especially critical in the .NET community, as there are hundreds of thousands of us lowly code monkeys vying for attention. So how do you make yourself stand out from the crowd? Simple Answer: Put your name in your blog title. You'd be surprised how quickly this affects your search placement with Google. Fire up your browser, and search for "Kirk Allen Evans" in Google. The 2nd result you'll see is his blog. That's important when a potential employer decides to Google your name to see what comes up. Scoble and others have noted that their blogging is what helped them get hired. [Robert McLaws: BoyWonder.NET]
Re: Radio spiking CPU to 100%. I wonder if one or many of your roots have bloated. This happens over time with roots. There's a script that 'saves as' each root on the Userland's samples site. I've a version of this which does some nicer stuff, particularly a report telling you of the squished effectiveness, how much was saved in other words.
After running Radio for over a year, I first run this because my Radio root was 108MB. Squished its 21MB. The aggregatorData.root also bulks up quite a bit, and I regularly squish 300% out of this.
Try this script then, just double click to import into your workspace, open it, press run, wait maybe 5 minutes as it trundles through your roots, doing a save as on each one. Once it's finished, a window will open from your Radio folder:logs:Save as.txt telling you what it did.
You should then quit Radio. Delete the Radio.root. Rename the newly created Radiox.root to Radio.root and restart. All the other roots were squished and deleted automatically.
I run this at least weekly, sometimes when Radio's getting slow/sticky. It may help your 100% CPU, it may not, it certainly won't harm it.
--
Steve Hooker
http://www.cybersaps.org/ By Steve Hooker. [Radio UserLand Messages]
About.com reviews RSS News Aggregators. If you've been wondering what RSS is, or what a news aggregator is, this is a good place to start.
[The Scobleizer Weblog]