May 2008
30 posts
Classy Inheritance →
Yay, I was looking for something like that last week
Announcing AJAX Libraries API: Speed up your Ajax... →
Great idea
Performance implications of block&capture helpers →
Rails Components Revisited: Introducing... →
Without any Engines magic
The Road to TapeDeck 1.0 →
“We appreciate the creativity that the technical community has offered up in...”
– Twitter Technology Blog: Twittering About Architecture
SmartSprites: CSS Sprite Generator Done Right →
Need to try this
“The finest pieces of software are those where one individual has a complete...”
– Bill Gates–1986 « Programmers At Work
Dynamically created methods in Ruby →
“There seems to be some confusion with regards to dynamically defining methods in Ruby.”
Palmist - A Handy Tool for Finding and Fixing... →
Pretty similar to the query_reviewer plugin
GitCasts →
The Narcissism of Small Code Differences →
“And you know what? There is something really evil about taking thousands of the...”
– The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Google putting up fence and gate to keep execs from leaving
Poor mans CDN →
The same idea wordpress.com uses for image serving (S3 with local cache), but with more technical details
My Git Workflow →
Very nice explanation of what the Index does in git
“I’m not counting on infrastructure to be a long-term competitive advantage for...”
– Infrastructure as Competitive Advantage
“Demeter be damned.”
– The Law of Demeter is a Piffle
Improve Your Page Performance With Lazy Loading →
“If you’ve worked at enough companies in the IT industry, you’ve probably noticed...”
– Up or Out: Solving the IT Turnover Crisis
MySQL and the Linux swap problem →
Putting the Fun in Functional: Applying Game... →
Notes and slides of an very interesting looking talk
The Tools Google Uses Internally →
Fiddler Web Debugger →
PageDetailer or this is used to make the front end performance charts in Steve Souders presentations.
IBM Page Detailer →
“A graphical tool that enables Web content providers to rapidly and accurately measure client side performance of Web pages.”
High Performance Web Sites, Part 2 →
New stuff from Steve Souders, with a focus on JavaScript
so-you-wanna-see-an-image →
Wordpress uses a clever technique to store images on S3 but cache them on their cluster
.bash_profile - Pastie →
The ps? alias is very handy
Rands In Repose: The Business →
I really enjoyed this article, why is talking about money so stigmatized?
Subversion’s Future? →
random($foo): Web 2.0 Expo Presentation Rundown →
“There were actually a surprising amount of very good presentations at Web 2.0 Expo last week”