Entries in Category: Career

So, in my learnings and conversations with people over the past week, I've just discovered this concept of Complex Event Processing. It's a fascinating subject -- taking a fast moving data stream and performing analysis of it in real time. I'm looking at a (PowerPoint alert!) presentation that say they achieve a 1msec lag in some cases using an on-the-fly db with SQL-like syntax. This is truly fascinating business. Anyone out there in blogland into this CEP stuff. ...

So here's an interesting challenge. Where I work, I had to put together a server that converts word .doc format files to .pdf files for some of our documents. After quite a bit of searching around (doc2pdf type programmes and scripts), I'd settled on linbox converter. Basically it's a daemon that runs on a windows machine that has MS Office installed as well as ghostscript and python. A client sends a doc with a request for conversion into, for ...