September 2008
20 posts
Point, Click, Understand OAuth →
Search experiments, large and small →
Good insight into the kind of A/B testing Google is doing
Last second scaling hack →
Posting this because I need to do something similar in Varnish
Graner Ray On Bringing In More Players With Better... →
Good article about game tutorial design
“There’s a real tendency to get tunnel vision about the things we “need” and to...”
– RubyConf Speaker Interview: Nathaniel Talbott
Hot technologies I care about - Sep ‘08 →
reek, a code smells detector for ruby →
Flickr Engineers Do It Offline →
Yet another messaging technology
“I suspect what sparked the panic is that the Seinfeld ads were too good, too...”
– Daring Fireball: There’s Nothing There
The first 6 steps to homegrowing basic startup... →
The 4 1/2 Day Workweek →
I’m still aiming for the 4 day workweek
“When you ask an engineer to do the impossible, they often laugh in your face not...”
– Rands In Repose: Impossible
Bluff: Beautiful graphs in JavaScript →
Packaging Design for Web-based Products →
“You have to wonder if Apple wants the App Store to be a museum of...”
– App Store: I’m out.
OAuth on the iPhone →
“There’s nothing wrong with fucking shit up every single day. But you have to...”
– Better
Google Releases More Patches for MySQL →
dConstruct 2008 notes →
Good coverage, seems like a lot of high quality sessions