- Working Backwards – All Things Distributed
Quote: “… start with your customer and work your way backwards until you get to the minimum set of technology requirements to satisfy what you try to achieve. The goal is to drive simplicity through a continuous, explicit customer focus.”
(categories: amazon wernervogels design marketing agile process development ) - Well-formed data | Elastic lists
Very cool combination of infoviz and browsing.
(categories: classification data filtering information navigation visualization ) - The Institutional Yes: The HBR Interview with Jeff Bezos
Quote: “… But I very rarely get asked “What?s not going to change in the next five to ten years?? At Amazon we?re always trying to figure that out, because you can really spin up flywheels around those things.”
(categories: amazon bezos business strategy ) - UnintentionalObjectRetention: WideFinder and Java
An attempted implementation of WideFinder in Java.
(categories: java parallelization threading threads widefinder ) - How well do you know prototype: part I
Good list of ways you can use really make use of Prototype.
(categories: prototype javascript tips )
Category Archives: Uncategorized
Links: 9-26-2007
- Joyeur: Quick wins with MySQL
MySQL performance optimizations.
(categories: mysql performance optimization sysadmin tips tuning ) - BestPractices – Atom Wiki
A list of best practices for Atom documents.
(categories: atom bestpractice feeds syndication ) - Top 10 Food Books Every Chef Should Own
I love food.
(categories: food yum books toread cooking )
Links: 9-25-2007
- Bug Report: innerHTML and text normalization
If you grab the innerHTML from a pre or textarea element in IE you don’t get formatting back like you should. Awesome
(categories: iesucksballs ie7 ie6 innerhtml javascript dom ) - Coupon codes for thousands of online stores – RetailMeNot.com
Coupon site by the same guys that did bugmenot.com.
(categories: useful shopping discount coupons )
Links: 9-21-2007
- BofA: Small Business Community
ClearspaceX powers the Bank of America Small Business Community site. Stories = wiki documents, Experts = blogs, Forums = Discussion forums.
(categories: clearspacex clearspace community bankofamerica smallbusiness )
Links: 9-18-2007
- Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : Facebook Considered Harmless
Quote: “…what most people were really looking for?or at least, what most people have responded to since such things became available?were web gizmos as easy as farting and as addictive as cigarettes.”
(categories: social facebook blogging web twitter )
Links: 9-17-2007
- Campaign Monitor Store
Nerdy email marketing t-shirts.
(categories: email marketing tshirts t-shirts ) - mySQL DBA: The mySQL Optimizer and your applications
Quote: “…the mySQL Optimizer… sucks in every version that I tested, which is 3.23 4.0 4.1 5.0 5.1.”
(categories: mysql optimizer optimization query )
Links: 9-8-2007
- RSS Duplicate Detection
More on duplicates in RSS and how aggregators deal with the problem.
(categories: aggregator rss guid duplication feeds syndication ) - RSS: The GUID Problem
The problem of duplicate items in RSS feeds explained.
(categories: rss guid uniqueness aggregation atom:id ) - MovableType Dashboard @ samuel.bowles.es
MT dashboard plugin with cool infoviz.
(categories: movabletype infoviz graphing plugins ) - YouTube – Nationl Anthem Fenway Park
Why Fenway Park is the best place in the world to watch a baseball game.
(categories: baseball fenway boston redsox america ) - Developer | Slider | Measure Map
Open source Flash / JavaScript data slider for Flash visualization from Measure Map (used in Movable Type 4.0 dashboard / plugins).
(categories: todo flash visualization javascript slider measuremap stats ) - A Collection of JVM Options
A crazy long list of JVM options.
(categories: jvm java via:rc3.org reference options tuning )
Links: 8-28-2007
- snellspace.com : Blog Archive : Talking Smack
Atom over XMPP using Smack.
(categories: atom smack xmpp app ) - MySQL 5.1 Reference Manual : Using Master/Slave Replication with ReplicationConnection
MySQL driver for use with master / slave database configuration.
(categories: java mysql jdbc masterslave replication failover loadbalancing )
Links: 8-25-2007
- Groupware Bad
Quote: “Jesus Mother of Fuck, what are you thinking! Do not strap the ‘Groupware’ albatross around your neck! That’s what killed Netscape, are you insane?”
(categories: collaboration groupware social funny ) - Bill de hÓra: Rates of decay: XMPP Push, HTTP Pull
A discussion about the shortcomings of HTTP polling and the upsides of XMPP and Atom entries.
(categories: atom xmpp polling syndication http ) - tumbledry.org * late night edition
Cool design, I like the ‘roll up’ feature.
(categories: design blogs cool )
Links: 8-24-2007
- Intel Open Port: Open Port
Intel recently launched their IT community using ClearspaceX. Suhweet.
(categories: clearspace clearspacerocks clearspacex intel community communities ) - SharePoint and Web Services
Full list of 16 web services that Sharepoint 2003 offers.
(categories: webservices soap sharepoint microsoft )