Scalability is the talk of the town with new apps going through very public growing pains on the regular as they struggle to cope with exponential growth. It’s about time someone started aggregating this knowledge.
Demo app from James Ward comparing performance of various data loading techniques. Mostly intended for showing off Flex performance vs. Ajax, but the Ajax stats are interesting in and of themselves.
Adobe evangelist James Ward giving a Google tech talk. Lots of detail and clarification of the generally quite fuzzy picture of what’s possible with these technologies.
Good refresher on Python style, idioms and quirks. Was just thinking I could do with something like this today when reading the Django masterclass slides.
Crazy amazing slapping game
More rails performance criticism / tips.
Practical Common Lisp author talks about polyglot-ism and programming language choice.
See what all the fuss is about.
Looks interesting. Use one keyboard and mouse one two machines KVM-switch-style only via the network.
Spam prevention techniques by Allan Odgaard, the author of Textmate.