A power outage at one of Google’s datacenters took App Engine down for over two hours. Google has provided the details of why it went down for so long and what they’re doing to improve things in the future. Transparent Uptime called their postmortem a “nearly perfect model for others”. Two of their action [...]
When Google loses power…
March 8th, 2010Android users: 73% male
March 5th, 2010It looks like Android users are overwhelmingly guys (73%!):
Got an Android phone? You’re probably a man
Are most early adopters men or is it something inherent to the platform?
Here are some more mobile stats: AdMob Mobile Stats January 2010
Ever wonder what that website is made of?
March 5th, 2010Today I read a Linux Magazine article hilighting some of Chrome’s 3000 extensions. A particular one that caught my attention is called BuiltWith Technology Profiler.
BuiltWith does what its title says: it profiles a site for the technologies it uses, and then gives you a little report. I like how it picks up on Cufon [...]
Javascript parseInt quirkiness
February 26th, 2010I found a funny quirk to the javascript parseInt function today. I tried this:
hour = parseInt(“08″);
expected a value of hour == 8. What was the result? hour == 0. huh?
Well, here’s the function syntax:
parseInt(string, radix)
If the radix parameter is omitted, JavaScript assumes the following:
If the string begins with “0x”, the radix is 16 (hexadecimal)
If [...]
Search and Replace all files in a tree on Linux boxes
February 24th, 2010So here is something that is very helpful. Jason walked me through one particular case that I needed and I thought I’d share it with everyone (including my future self).
Problem: The specific problem was that I needed to change the sytax of SSI when moving a client from Windows to Linux (i.e. IIS [...]
Welcome to Shelter Network of San Mateo County
February 19th, 2010New Shelter Network site goes live.
They brought us in to produce a design they had been given by another firm. Scripting assistance from Matt C and Jeff (for the cool Cufon-based font rendering help).
They report high praise and are grateful for [...]
Auto convert Leads in SalesForce CRM?
February 12th, 2010SalesForce does not have an out-of-the-box feature to automatically convert Leads, but the API makes the convert function available for any developer’s use… and someone did!
For one example, here is Steve Anderson’s APEX solution that auto converts and if the Contact already exists then adds the data submission as an activity.
I’ve seen other examples as [...]
Android market share up, again
February 9th, 2010comScore’s December 2009 report on Mobile Market share shows Android is at 5.2% (up 2.7 from September). Apple continues to grow, while RIM, Microsoft, and Palm all dropped. While still last among the five, Android is showing strong growth and is on track to overtake Palm very soon.
ArsTechnica’s summary: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2010/02/google-makes-biggest-gain-in-smartphone-market-share.ars
Full comScore report: http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2010/2/comScore_Reports_December_2009_U.S._Mobile_Subscriber_Market_Share
A Graphical Toolkit for Visualizing Data
February 5th, 2010Came across Protovis as I was thinking about different ways to report financial data for EEBA. There’s a good gallery of examples. Some of the examples show the same data presented in different formats. A great exercise to determine what types of graphic best represents different types of data.
