Comments on: Platypus update https://onlineaspect.com/2007/06/21/platypus-update/ building stuff on the web with Josh Fraser Sun, 29 Mar 2009 09:10:41 +0000 hourly 1 By: joshfraz https://onlineaspect.com/2007/06/21/platypus-update/comment-page-1/#comment-16 Tue, 26 Jun 2007 01:59:00 +0000 https://onlineaspect.com/2007/06/21/platypus-update/#comment-16 Justin,
Sorry that you are having problems with Platypus. You’re not alone. Other people have been having problems too.

There are a couple things that are causing the application to time out:

1) the application is very computationally intensive and the server often times out before it is finished calculating everything.

2) Facebook’s query language (FQL) does not support the COUNT() function. This means that instead of it returning an integer value for my query, it returns ALL the data and I have to loop through and count it out myself. Needless to say, this isn’t very efficient and it definitely doesn’t help the timeout issue!

Sorry you’re having problems. I hope you keep trying. It usually works on the second try.

]]> By: Justin https://onlineaspect.com/2007/06/21/platypus-update/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Mon, 25 Jun 2007 12:33:15 +0000 https://onlineaspect.com/2007/06/21/platypus-update/#comment-15 I installed it and uninstalled it because it didn’t work (for me). I’ll try it again.

]]> By: Fadi https://onlineaspect.com/2007/06/21/platypus-update/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Fri, 22 Jun 2007 21:39:25 +0000 https://onlineaspect.com/2007/06/21/platypus-update/#comment-14 I think one of the reasons you have a low retention rate is that the data rarely changes, and never dramatically. It’s just static information, which a person only really needs once.

]]> By: Doug Williams https://onlineaspect.com/2007/06/21/platypus-update/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Fri, 22 Jun 2007 03:15:16 +0000 https://onlineaspect.com/2007/06/21/platypus-update/#comment-13 I have written my thoughts at http://igudo.wordpress.com/2007/06/19/fickle-facebook-friends/

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