Dive into the archives.
- Stamen and Trulia
At XTech, a few of the Stamen Design folks gave a presentation looking at the different ways to express time visually. I enjoyed the presentation quite a bit though I wish more of the audience would have come earlier to hear my talk since they spoke right after me but that’s neither here nor [...]
- Log4Twitter
Being on the Twitter API development list is a good way to hear about new little apps before everyone else. Case in point, Log4Twitter. It’s an Appender to log4j which is pretty much the standard logging component for any Java project.
This wouldn’t be for debug logging or information logging. I think it [...]
- Creating a Web Framework with Conventions
Joe Gregorio has an awesome post detailing the work needed to create a Web framework with some very nice conventions.
They key point of adding ‘conventions’ is to take a load off the user. You need to actually remove two kinds of load, cognitive and manual. Cognitive load is the number of concepts you need to [...]
- Extending Philadelphia Wireless
CrunchGear notes that our extending Philadelphia wireless network should soon be ready to go. I think that’s just awesome and I’m really happy with the extension of the network. Hopefully the folks in Philly feel the same way once they are able to use it.
Even though there have been quite a few recent [...]
- Memcached
A few memcached-related blog posts over the last couple of days.
First, Tobias Luetke gives the the secret to memcached. It boils down to being as specific as you can with your memcached requests. In his example, part of the key was a version number which gets revved any time an update to a [...]
- Ignite Where
Looks like some very cool talks at the Ignite Where day during Where 2.0 next week. Really wish I could have made it to Where 2.0 but I think more travel would not have made the domestic life very easy.
- Universal Search and Personalization
One of the aspects of my talk at XTech was the addition of contexts to our search queries and how that will be necessary as we move further into a world where always-on connections are the norm. One of those contexts is personalization and it’s very interesting how much Google seems to be pushing [...]
- Some Random Ruby / Rails Goodness
Here’s a few Ruby / Rails things I’ve seen around the Web the last few days. All are pretty cool…
Evan Weaver shows off some MySQL configurations for Rails.
Ilya Grigorik creates a simple RSS aggregator in 26 lines of Ruby code.
Here’s a custom Mongrel handler to create an XML-RPC server. I’ve been digging a [...]
- Satisfaction on Digg
The folks over at Satisfaction have a great post looking into the Digg revolt from earlier in the week. Lots has been written about it and obviously more will continue.
I was thinking about starting a pool at work, having people bet on when a Product Manager is going to bring up the [...]
- Ameriganzapalooza
Cindy Li and Jason Garber have travelled across the country. Here’s the stream of data they generated with the help of Twitter, Flickr and blog posts. It’s really an impressive thing when simple data updates can be put together to form a last impression of a trip or event.
I know one of [...]
