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Ever since I started doing Flex development my installation of Eclipse has been pretty pissed off. I guess having a big ass PHP project and a Flex project open at the same time is a recipe for disaster.

I’ve change the Eclipse ini file to allot more memory but that still doesn’t do the trick. My MacBook’s one of the earlier ones so I can’t expand beyond 2GB of RAM either

I guess I’m gonna have to get Jeff to pony up and buy me a new machine. Getting a new machine is 1/2 way exciting 1/2 annoying though but it’s easily better than having my IDE crap out 3 or 4 times a day.

The last little while I’ve been writing a new MP3 player for Fuzz using Adobe’s Flex Framework.

OK - first off… before I discuss the problem I gotta say Flex is pretty awesome. I’ve tried Flash before and have always been confused by the whole thing. Timelines, drawing tools & all the other designer-oriented stuff just stumped me. I’m a programmer so getting my head around Flash was just not happening… I don’t think that way. But Flex is fucking cool. The prologue of O’Reilly’s Programming Flex 2 pretty much addressed all my frustration with Flash and explained why I’d like Flex… Well, they’re right. It’s just like writing an app. You get handlers, listeners and all that crap that programmers understand and there’s no timeline or Illustrator-style, insane pen tool. It reminds me a lot of Swing and other shit like that.

Anyways… ya, Flex is cool. But, let’s get to the problem…

Here’s the problem:

The MP3 player streams songs off Fuzz, obviously. Also, downloading a song is quicker than listening to it real time. So a song downloads in 20 seconds, but takes 3 minutes to play… makes sense right. OK but here’s what was going on:

If you hit “play” on the player the song starts downloading and once it has enough it’ll start streaming. But, if you click on a link before the DL finished the request for the new page would not register until then download was complete.

A different manifestation of the same issue comes up when you have 2 browser windows open. Window 1 is playing music while you use window 2 to cruise around the rest of the site. Again, same problem. If you clicked on a link in window two to navigate to a new page nothing would happen until window 1 finished downloading the current song.

Fucked up huh?

I started fucking with every imaginable header in the proxy which serves up the song. Nothing seemed to work. Keep-Alive etc… I tried everything. I started tweaking Apache settings to no avail. Totally had me stumped.

I finally figured it out; The solution was to close the PHP session in the proxy before the code started outputting the MP3’s contents. Why’s this fix things? No idea but it works and I’ll look into “why” tonight at home.

A partial fix was to ignore_user_abort. In the single window case this worked fine but not in the 2 window situation.

Anywho… If anyone’s streaming MP3’s via PHP and wonders why links don’t respond just close your PHP session before spitting out the binary. I’ll check into why this is an issue and update when I understand the technicals.

On page D3 there’s a big ass picture of me Here’s the interweb version:

Unfortunately the article isn’t about how awesome I am… it’s about music startups and how the up-and-coming bands use the interwebs to get themselves out there. Actually, The Hot Toddies got front page real estate… in those little squares up at the top of the front page. Tres Cool huh?

My friends from Maldroid, The Hot Toddies and Nothington were also in the article and/or had pics up on SFGate.com.

Not a bad start to the week huh? I also picked up my P Bass from getting a setup this morning… that’s kinda like icing on the cake.

We’ve got a new feature at Fuzz which is living on some secret URL. It’s pretty fucking rad. If you’re down to give it a whirl do the following:

1. make sure you have a fuzz.com account
2. make sure you have dan, me & ian as friends/favorites.
3. Email me and i’ll tell you the new feature’s URL.

Word

The contest is over and we’ll be running a script to pull the winners from the virtual hat pretty soon.

Winners will be notified via private message on Fuzz.

Hey peeps could you please click here and Digg that story for moi.

Thanks

Arin

American Steel & Alkaline Trio will be playing a “Fuzz Presents” show at Cafe Du Nord on April 7th. You can’t buy tickets. The only place to get secure yourself a spot for this show is over on Fuzz.com.

My RSS search feed for “Fuzz.com” just turned up a job listing:

Social Networking Site developer needed to create a community for musicians. Studio Bum Recordings is looking to develop a site similar to http://mp3.com http://soundclick.com or http://fuzz.com

We are currently looking for someone who is skilled in PHP, CSS, & HTML. We are looking to either build a site from scratch or utilize a premade (template based) script depending on the rates and turnaround time.

Please provide your resume and examples of social networking sites you have worked on.

from this page

So you really think you’re gonna copy Fuzz with 3 people who earn ~$25 in 2 week’s time?

C’mon now. Maybe they’ll check out our new release in 10 days and pony up a bit more cash and time.