Comments on: While Searching Something Else http://jeff.edublogs.org/2007/11/26/while-searching-something-else/ instructional technology and occasional ramblings Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:15:46 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: RT http://jeff.edublogs.org/2007/11/26/while-searching-something-else/comment-page-1/#comment-132 RT Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:10:46 +0000 http://jeff.edublogs.org/2007/11/26/while-searching-something-else/#comment-132 I should qualify this with the fact that I don't really know what I'm talking about, and you probably know much more about this than me. That said, at least I'm contributing! If you want meaningful data, shouldn't you be appending locally anyway? AFAIK, if SocketAppender loses its connection, you lose all events until reconnection. "Coming along from the network standpoint," isn't it preferable to 'pull' when you need, rather than 'push' all the time? Does SocketAppender encrypt the serialized object, so as not to "fall by the security wayside"? Annnnnnnd I've lost my mind. I should qualify this with the fact that I don’t really know what I’m talking about, and you probably know much more about this than me. That said, at least I’m contributing!

If you want meaningful data, shouldn’t you be appending locally anyway? AFAIK, if SocketAppender loses its connection, you lose all events until reconnection.

“Coming along from the network standpoint,” isn’t it preferable to ‘pull’ when you need, rather than ‘push’ all the time? Does SocketAppender encrypt the serialized object, so as not to “fall by the security wayside”? Annnnnnnd I’ve lost my mind.

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