Archive for May, 2008
Sunday, May 25th, 2008
Antonio Cangiano offers up 10 Ruby on Rails Performance tips, some of which are really just good practice in any web application and aren't specific to Rails. This includes gems like:
don’t be afraid of using the cool features provided by your database, even if they are not directly supported by ...
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Saturday, May 24th, 2008
Cesar Torres analyzed the new Facebook profile design yesterday as did TechCrunch. Both come to the same conclusion: Facebook is trying to become a web operating system. Both cite the use of a Mac OSX-style menu design (a weak indicator of an "OS" in my opinion) but Cesar goes farther ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Mashable has a post today discussing Facebook's 10% traffic decline from March to April as well as their year-on-year slowdown from 98% growth to 56% growth. This just adds to the recent meme of "Facebook kind of sucks" that has been going around for a while. For example RWW ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
Today is my last day at Kadro Solutions, my employer for the last 4 years. Over the next few days, I'm going to take a brief foray into the wilderness with some friends to clear my head. After that, I'm embarking on starting my second company, Appozite. I'm excited (and ...
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Sunday, May 11th, 2008
concept dropping (v) - the act of incoherently stringing together concepts for the sole purpose of using said concepts to impress an uninformed audience. (see also: transparent meme-whoring)
Steve Gillmore provides what should now be seen as the canonical concept-dropping example on TechCruch:
Simply put, you have to have the ability to ...
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Sunday, May 11th, 2008
I've been using Twitter seriously for several months now and I really enjoy the rapid information exchange of the micro blogging platform. I've never been able to sustain a "real" blog for very long but I've stuck with Twitter. That 140 character limit is a far lower barrier to entry ...
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