ArsTechnica has an article discussing some of the lessons that can be learned from looking back at how Second Life scaled up to the number of users it has now, and how future projects can avoid some of their problems.
The lessons are both from a infrastructure/hardware scaling perspective as well as from development process and [...]
Here’s an important part of the RewriteRule documentation that I didn’t read carefully enough
Here is an MSN money article which recommends NOT buying any smart phone other than the Blackberry or iPhone.
Smart-phone also-rans
In the past few years, several smart phones have hit the market with features similar to the iPhone and BlackBerry, but they haven’t generated the same buzz.
As a result, fewer developers are likely to create [...]
Warms the heart … well actually it chills it a little. But it is good to see that teenagers can see the potential trouble.
Breaking up with time-consuming Facebook
Nothing untoward took place on her Facebook page (her parents checked). Her grades stayed strong. So the adults in her life didn’t see any urgent reason to intervene. [...]
You want to place one on an HTML page so a visitor can share the page with others on Facebook. You see these a lot in blog posts and news articles.
Here’s how to put one on a page:
Step 1: Go here, set your options (like whether you want a counter included) and copy the html [...]
We have a long-time client that has been running in JDK 1.3 since the enterprise app was written and I was wanting to have the benefits of the newer versions of Java both in terms of language features and runtime speed improvements. So I upgraded the app to JDK 6 (aka 1.6) last week when [...]
Can I get a “what-what” and a cursor explosion?
The new National Council on Crime and Delinquency site is now live. They called us in when they needed their new design implemented on a tight timeline in a way that would let them manage the content. We set up the infrastructure and initial pages then showed [...]
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