Jahr: 2006

Crazy Egg: „Get a clear picture of where your visitors are clicking and enhance your site’s results.“ (Via Ryan Eby.)

Steve Yegge – Good Agile, Bad Agile: „With a priority queue, you have a dumping-ground for any and all ideas (and bugs) that people suggest as the project unfolds. No engineer is ever idle, unless the queue is empty, which by definition means the project has launched. Tasks can be suspended and resumed simply by…

Joseph Scott – AJAX Edit In Place (EIP) With Prototype (see also related blog entries).

Erik Hatcher – Lucene Summit: „I really found the Collex interface concept to be very interesting. Everything is a contraint or limit and you can easily add or invert the contraint. It’s also easy to add things to a personal collection and parts of the personal collection then become facets/contraints themselves. He’s really using all…

„The goal of Varnish is to be a very fast, stable and effective light-weight HTTP accelerator daemon, by using modern and effective technologies. […] When we set out to design and implement a high-performance HTTP accelerator about a year ago, we knew that we could improve on the state of the art, but we did…

Jon Udell at InfoWorld – Watching out for our own security: „Desktop and server operating systems know, and can report, when you’ve logged in and what you’ve been doing. True, a savvy impersonator can erase her footsteps, but if you’re motivated to look, there’s a decent chance you can detect an intrusion. Applications and services…

Ola Bini – Rails, Databases, ActiveRecord and the path towards damnation: „Actually, the worst part with MySQL is that ActiveRecord have been designed based on it. […] It is incredibly hard to get other databases working with Rails, and even if you do get them working, it will be slow. Really slow. Take Oracle. Oracle…

Kurt Cagle – I Think, Therefore I eXist …: „eXist exposes a WebDAV interface that any WebDAV enabled software can use to both retrieve and write content from/to the database. For instance, from Oxygen (my all time favorite XML editor) I can select Open URL, pass the appropriate URL (http://localhost:8080/exist/webdav/db/ on the default) and you…

Tim Bray – “Publish” Everywhere: „Here’s the Atom dream: A “Publish” button on everything. On every word processor and email reader and web browser and cellphone and PDA and spreadsheet and photo-editor and digicam and outliner and sales-force tracker. Really, everywhere. If it doesn’t have a “Publish” button, it’s broken.“

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