Presence and IntComm WG

[Jamey Hicks <>]

On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 10:31, Ben Teitelbaum wrote:
> Jamey Hicks 
> <>
>  writes:
> 
> > On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 08:46, Ben Teitelbaum wrote:
> >
> > Hi Ben,
> >
> > Thanks for the beautification effort and for hooking in the session
> > names.  I'm not worried about the backtick execution since the data for
> > the command line comes only from the database.  
> 
> Right.  And users can't set their place to an arbitrary string.
> 
> > I'm a little concerned that it will cause a performance problem.  
> 
> Yeah, me too.  
> 
> > I was thinking of adding a column to the place table for the session
> > name and running a script that updates it every so often (half hour?
> > 5 minutes?).
> 
> This would clearly be better from a performance point of view.  I'm
> sort of a MySQL ignoramus.  If you add the column to the place table,
> I could probably handle the rest.  I'd have it poll the rooms every
> minute, since we are displaying minutes left.

Cool.  place table now has a session_name column.

> Speaking of polling, it would make sense to add a refresh directive to
> the portal page's HTML.

Good idea.

I'll do some more work on this today if I get a chance.

Jamey



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