June 2008
21 posts
“But sometimes we geeks forget about all the delightful and beautiful things we...”
– Delighting with Data » tomtaylor.co.uk
Dark Launches, Gradual Ramps and Isolation:... →
Reliable Ruby timeouts with SystemTimer: Do not... →
“Programmers don’t want their peers to see mistakes or failures. They want to...”
– Programmer Insecurity
Finder Objects in Rails →
Interesting idea. Might also be a good solution for really fat models
Cooking For Engineers - Step by Step Recipes and... →
I really like the diagrams
Announcing: Jiffy Firebug Extension for Viewing... →
Measuring User Experience Performance →
Great stuff from Netflix about end-user performance
Google I/O Session Videos and Slides →
I’m curious about the new Steve Souders presentation ‘Even Faster Web Sites’
“You are not your code”
– Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming
What are game mechanics? →
Very good overwiew
Patterns for Designing a Reputation System →
Cool, patterns about “social design”
How to pick indexes for order by and group by... →
Geohash for spatial index and search →
15 Tools to Help You Develop Faster Web Pages →
Google Analytics after onLoad and document.write... →
implement later
Hadoop at Facebook →
“It’s shite like this that leaves you thinking, What were they thinking? ...”
– Indy v. Indie: Steven Spielberg Thinks You’re an Idiot, but Thomas McCarthy Knows Better
“A site that visibly promotes how many ’friends’ you have turns friends into...”
– Kevin Fox of Gmail & FriendFeed on User Experience Design
MagLev recap →
I’m not convinced
Twitter, or Architecture Will Not Save You →