Entries in the ' punditry ' category
Written July 12, 2008 in php, punditry, symfony, webdev, zend framework
First, read this: The Answer is No @ The Big Contrarian.
In response: At least part of the problem is that we STILL haven’t defined the question. Is it that we develop a web application to solve problems in the most efficient and graceful way? Or is it that …
Continuing the thread of my earlier article on twitter’s architecture mistakes, Big Contrarian (new favorite weblog) made a post a few days ago that caught the SQL optimization report that Twitter leaked via it’s staging site, and then rapidly pulled down.
Ok, Biz Stone, you twit, you failed …
A friend of mine works for Craigslist. We were talking about their problems with spam on the dating forums, and he was talking about how so many of the ‘people’ responding to ads are spam bots — and how many ‘people’ posting ads are spam bots. Internally, they’re wondering when …
Jobs’ greatest contributions at Apple have likely been to kill or sideline a lot of good projects in order to focus the company’s efforts and resources on only the most exceptional ones. In contrast, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer have apparently thrown every product concept within Microsoft at the market
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Is Craig around? Someone needs to tell Jim that they need to find a genius to recode their site to protect against malicious posting.
In all the areas I frequent on Craigslist — College Station, Austin, Houston, San Antonio, D/FW — the listings in the vehicles, motorcycles, and even …
Daring Fireball attempts to be pithy about Blockbuster’s new kiosks. ‘Cept — there’s now a bunch of self-service kiosks in my local Kroger. You can check your own groceries, you can buy flowers and other miscellaneous items from vending machines, you can exchange your own tank of propane, …
John Gruber of Daring Fireball writes, “Williams does have a good point regarding AOL’s demo of a native iPhone AIM client during the SDK introductory event: an IM client is exactly the sort of app that’s potentially a lot more useful if it continues to keep you logged in …
This will likely be the only political post you’ll ever see on this blog.
An Associated Press writer wrote a good analysis on campaign promises vs. the likely reality … while it’s the type of thing that I think should appear on the editorial page more than in the hard …
I realize that Joyent is a good hosting company. I love good hosting companies. I know several apps that are well served by hosting there.
But every time I visit their homepage, I can’t help but blanch at seeing the sight of entire racks of Dell 2950s with their …
If you’re a fan of branching tree decision making like I am (While thinking, I consciously try to organize my thoughts as branching from one another…), then SevenSixFive’s discussion of branching is worth a read.
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