Tim Groeneveld

After ranting about Apple’s overpriced machines. which are nothing short of a bad joke, I am still over excited to get my new machine. My new AMD Phenom & Adaptec 3405-based machine is going to be used by me in the testing and development of two exciting products. ShareSource’s Xen compile farm, and another, top secret project that will keep me pre-occupied while I pay off my loan.

Anyways, a quick run down on the specs of the machine:

• Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P
• AMD Phenom II AM3 810 (2.6Ghz)
• 8GB of DDR3 RAM
• nVidia 9600GT 512MB (graphics are not my thing, but I love to watch a good quality movie)
• 32GB System drive [for Linux - has access to RAID storage], Solid State
• 500GB System drive [for Windows - might not have access to RAID]
• 4.5TB of disk space, thanks to Adaptec’s 3405 SATA RAID card
• C-Master COSMOS S case
• 2x 20″ BenQ LCD Screens
• Creative Audigy XFI sound card (which sadly does not have terribly good sound drivers for Linux… another thing on the TODO list)
• 7.1 Surround Sound
• DViCO HDTV tuner ( just for those times that I really don’t want to code )

Total price: $3,200

written by Tim Groeneveld \\ tags: computer, diy, new

Ever wanted to run your own bank? Well, my new [experimental] web application allows you to do exactly that. While some may say that I just have way too much time on my hands, others might just say that I should get top marks for my IPT [Information Processing Technology] assignment.

We had to build a database system, which implemented relational databases, and I thought, well, I could make my very own banking software, and fulfil one of my many dreams: to run my own bank.

The software, written in PHP was a testing ground for many new things that I have wanted to go and try, but never really had a project to try them out on.

I must say that MyBanco would have to be the first application that I have written with the mindset of handling around 700 transactions every second.

MyBanco uses a backend for it’s database which I have dubbed ‘MyInfo’. MyInfo is a JSON-RPC like protocol, which is easy to use, and can send multiple packets (I just thought then it might have been better to call these chunks… hmmmm) all at once, and get a response from all those packets. Think of it as a easy to read and faster to pharse version of XML-RPC.

I will chat at MyBanco a little more later, when the time is right, but for the moment this post will do

(hope you like the new blog!)

written by Tim Groeneveld \\ tags: experiments, MyBanco, MyInfo, new, PHP