Two different worlds
Signal vs. Noise   Ryan   •  7 days ago  •   rank: 1.8
I walked into a Sprint store today to check out the Palm Pixi. AT&T has been bad enough lately that, while I’m not ready to chuck the iPhone, I’m at least growing curious. Unfortunately “walking ...
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PHOTO: I ran some statistics on the last few years
Signal vs. Noise   Jeremy   •  6 days ago  •   rank: 1.3
I ran some statistics on the last few years of Basecamp activity and uncovered this strange, recurring anomaly....
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The long take
Signal vs. Noise   Matt   •  6 days ago  •   rank: 0.9
A long take is a single, unbroken camera shot that lasts much longer than a typical shot. While the idea’s been around for a long time, it feels like it has extra impact in today’s world of...
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REWORK is now in stores
Signal vs. Noise   Matt   •  1 day ago  •   rank: 0.7
        Alright, the big day is finally here! REWORK is now available in stores. You can order the US version online from the following booksellers: Amazon.com Barnes & Noble Borders Indie Bound...
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VIDEO: Our new office, pre-construction. Lease signed
Signal vs. Noise   Jason F.   •  1 day ago  •   rank: 0.6
Our new office, pre-construction. Lease signed today. Move in scheduled sometime in July. Full story, floor plans, and vision shortly....
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Color Picker: Works even in IE6
Ajaxian » Front Page   Dion Almaer   •  6 days ago  •   rank: 0.4
Works even in IE6 Love that quote from the color picker over at RaphaelJS land. This plugin by Dmitry Baranovskiy gives you an easy color picker in short order: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT:   var icon =...
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Episode 204: XSS Protection in Rails 3
Railscasts   Ryan Bates   •  2 days ago  •   rank: 0.3
It is easy to be vulnerable to cross site scripting attacks in earlier versions of Rails, but Rails 3 solves this by automatically escaping unsafe input....
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Friday fun: Let’s translate YUI3 to jQuery
Ajaxian » Front Page   Chris Heilmann   •  5 days ago  •   rank: 0.3
I just came across this wonderful Gist on gitHub: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT:   var $; YUI().use('*', function(Y){   $ = Y.get;   for(var p in Y) {       $[p] = Y[p];   } });   // test...
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How MySpace Tested Their Live Site with 1 Million Concurrent Users
High Scalability   Todd Hoff   •  6 days ago  •   rank: 0.3
This is a guest post by Dan Bartow, VP of SOASTA, talking about how they pelted MySpace with 1 million concurrent users using 800 EC2 instances. I thought this was an interesting story because: that's ...
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CouchDB at scale - 4 billion requests so far
Planet CouchDB   Enda Farrell   •  6 days ago  •   rank: 0.2
I recently twittered about the number of requests our CouchDB instances have handled since they were last upgraded. As it was a large number it piqued some interest, so I thought I’d give a little...
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Firefox gets hardware acceleration in early stage
Ajaxian » Front Page   Dion Almaer   •  5 days ago  •   rank: 0.2
Bass Schouten is a cool name, and the Mozillan has presented Direct2D hardware acceleration. You have to grab Firefox nightly, do the about:config / gfx.font_rendering.directwrite.enabled game, but...
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Vagrant: EC2-Like Virtual Machine Building and Provisioning from Ruby
Ruby Inside   Peter Cooper   •  2 days ago  •   rank: 0.1
Vagrant is a Ruby-based tool for building and deploying virtualized development environments. It uses Oracle's open-source VirtualBox virtualization system along with the Chef configuration management ...
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modulr: a CommonJS module implementation in Ruby for client-side JavaSc
Ajaxian » Front Page   Dion Almaer   •  2 days ago  •   rank: 0.1
modulr is a CommonJS module implementation in Ruby for client-side JavaScript Ruby? what does that have anything to do with it? Ah, its from one of those Prototype guys isn't it.... Yup, Tobie is at...
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Spectrum Visualization with the HTML5 Audio Data API
Ajaxian » Front Page   Dion Almaer   •  1 day ago  •   rank: 0.1
The HTML5 specification introduces the and media elements, and with them the opportunity to dramatically change the way we integrate media on the web. The current HTML5 media API provides ways to play ...
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Product Blog update: Basecamp email improvements, Highrise case studies
Signal vs. Noise   37signals   •  5 days ago  •   rank: 0.0
Some recent posts at the 37signals Product Blog: Basecamp New in Basecamp: Stylized email notifications We created new email designs for milestones (and 48-hour milestone reminders), file uploads,...
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How To Find Ruby User Groups
Ruby Inside   Peter Cooper   •  1 day ago  •   rank: 0.0
Ruby User Groups (RUGs, for short) are typically informal organizations put together to encourage Ruby developers with certain areas to get together, share ideas, and, often, to have some fun. If...
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Sponsored Post: Job Openings - Squarespace
High Scalability   Todd Hoff   •  1 day ago  •   rank: 0.0
Squarespace Looking for Full-time Scaling Expert Interested in helping a cutting-edge, high-growth startup scale? Squarespace, which was profiled here last year in Squarespace Architecture - A Grid...
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Applications as Virtual States
High Scalability   Todd Hoff   •  1 day ago  •   rank: 0.0
This is an excerpt from my article Building Super Scalable Systems: Blade Runner Meets Autonomic Computing in the Ambient Cloud. As I was writing an article on the architecture of the Storm Botnet, I...
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Ruby Tuesdays: RBP Chapter 7
Ruby Best Practices   Gregory Brown   •  1 day ago  •   rank: 0.0
If you’re reading this blog, you probably know that the Ruby Best Practices book exists. Even if you haven’t read it, you might have a sense for the sort of topics we cover based on the content...
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[Lingo] Slack, YAGNI, and low ceremony
Signal vs. Noise   Matt   •  2 days ago  •   rank: 0.0
Three terms that came up repeatedly during our San Diego retreat: Slack All the stuff that doesn’t fit neatly into bigger, concept-driven iterations. We save one of our programmer/designer teams for ...
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