Dive into the archives.
- Mobile NetNewsWire
Ars Technica has a preview of a mobile version of NetNewsWire which looks pretty awesome from the screenshots.
What you won’t see here are sites or feeds that do not have any unread items. In fact, Brent has taken measures to ensure that on the mobile version of NetNewsWire, the user will only see what’s important [...]
- Adding the environment to Merb’s Rake tasks
I was playing around with Merb some last night but I was running into a problem when I tried to utilize my models in a Rake task. Searching around I finally came across the Merb version of the task foo => :environment, it’s task foo => :merb_env. Now things are going much more [...]
- Facebook Chat development
One issue when you have existing user base is how to roll out new features with minimal impact on servers and user experience. When Facebook rolled out Facebook Chat they used a pretty good system of figuring out how things can scale.
The secret for going from zero to seventy million users overnight is to [...]
- Links Links Links
New iPhone version of Google Reader
We don’t need more information or aggregation, we need inspiration
SenseArray - a unique new type of recommendation engine (also known as a collaborative filter), software that determines a user’s interests based on behavioral information collected about that user. This can then be used to tailor your website to the individual [...]
- Kevin Burton on scaling MySQL
Kevin Burton has posted his slides from the MySQL conference. It’s based on his blog aggregator, Spinn3r which uses MySQL in write-heavy processes instead of the usual read path.
- Shell History
Since everyone else is doing it:
a21772:~ jlucas$ history|awk ‘{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf “%5d\t%s \n”,a[i],i}}’|sort -rn|head
126 rake
121 svn
69 vi
57 ./script/console
21 ./script/server
17 cd
15 ssh
[...]
- Some Thoughts on the Google App Engine
Everyone talked about the App Engine yesterday and folks seem to go in either of the extremes of loving it or hating it. I’ve seen conspiracy theories about giving Google access to your data but also how this could be the start of many simple applications that wouldn’t see the light of day without [...]
- Performance and Architecture Conferences
Looks like an action-packed couple of days at the end of June up in the Bay. First, there’s the O’Reilly Velocity conference and then on the 25th is Structure ‘08 conference. I’m not sure if I can go to either of them but they should be interesting.
- No Architects Need Apply
So no, we don’t hire architects. We hire developers. In a small team, there is no room for management deadwood. Everybody pays their own freight. The more senior you are, the more you get to help and coach and mentor others. Leading means enabling others to do their job and make good decisions on their [...]
- Starling
Blaine Cook from Twitter released Starling last week. He describes it as:
Starling is a light-weight persistent queue server that speaks the MemCache protocol. It was built to drive Twitter’s backend, and is in production across Twitter’s cluster.
I’m always a sucker for new infrastructure code but the problem is trying to figure out how to [...]
