Monday June 06, 2005
Monday June 06, 2005
Passions (Surfing and Java)
Interesting thing happened while I was in Prague last month visiting the NetBeans architects and engineers... I received a piece of e-mail from a webmaster and developer in Brazil who is also an avid surfer ...
If you go to Waves, this will take you to the largest surfing website in South America. Rafael, the developer I mentioned earlier, is also the developer of E-Surf, a website with interactive web cams which allow you to visually check various surf conditions at beaches in Brazil...
I've only managed to have a few exchanges with Rafael, but what he's done with E-Surf is pretty cool ... he built a pretty sophisticated system (yes, in Java of course) involving a web application that interposes itself between the user and the camera. This both allows him to display things like user credits but also maximizes the number of users allowed at a given moment on each camera. Per Rafael, one distinct advantage is that he now has a web app-driven system which both removes some of the limitations he had with the applet-driven implementation, but also allows him to serve more users at a given time than was possible before (for example, the camera itself has a 20 user limit, with the model that E-Surf has in place he had 25 simultaneous users accessing a camera during a national contest ... pretty impressive).
Rafael evidently also uses NetBeans, so he definitely gets a gold star in my book
Take a look and see what you think ... I know that when I go to Brazil next (lived there when I was much younger), I'll certainly be checking his site before I hit the waves ... Posted by brewin Jun 06 2005, 09:59:35 PM PDT Permalink