Category Archives: Apple

Migrating to Leopard Server

Posted on March 23, 2008 by Miguel Arroz

This was it. I spent the easter weekend migrating GAEL‘s Xserve to Leopard Server. It all went well, although some more or less serious issues poped up. Our server is used mainly for hosting web content and applications (php, perl, … Continue reading →

Posted in Apple, Mac OS X Server | 5 Comments

drawImage performance on Leopard

Posted on February 27, 2008 by Miguel Arroz

A not very fast but handy way to downscale images in a WebObjects application is using Java 2D APIs, with code like this: BufferedImage reducedImage = new BufferedImage(newX, newY, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB); Graphics2D g = reducedImage.createGraphics(); g.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_INTERPOLATION, RenderingHints.VALUE_INTERPOLATION_BICUBIC); g.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING, RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON); g.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_RENDERING, RenderingHints.VALUE_RENDER_SPEED); … Continue reading →

Posted in Apple, Java, Mac OS X, WebObjects | 2 Comments