Building “skinny daemons” in Ruby
Ruby Inside   Peter Cooper   •  23 days ago  •   rank: 1.0
http://labs.headlondon.com/2010/07/skinny-daemons/ (or on Ruby Inside)[W]e’ve been having a lot of fun writing a series of small, self-contained web apps .. When we’re building these kinds of...
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Product Blog update: Migrating contacts into Highrise, TrackRecord for
Signal vs. Noise   37signals   •  23 days ago  •   rank: 1.0
Some recent posts at the 37signals Product Blog: Highrise Migrating contacts from another CRM app into Highrise Bill Kobrin recently migrated 5,922 contact records from another CRM app into Highrise....
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Going Places with Facebook
Facebook Developer Blog   Facebook   •  22 days ago  •   rank: 1.0
Today we released Places, a new way for people on Facebook to share where they are, see where their friends have checked in, and discover interesting places nearby. As part of the rollout, we're...
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QUOTE: No one gives a damn about the size of your to-do list.
Signal vs. Noise   Sarah   •  23 days ago  •   rank: 1.2
No one gives a damn about the size of your to-do list. —Ryan Freitas shares 35 lessons of his 35 years....
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This week in Twitter
Signal vs. Noise   37signals   •  27 days ago  •   rank: 1.0
A few of this week’s 37signals staff posts at Twitter. jsierles: Just completed the lengthy but educational 37signals server move to ServerCentral. Thanks for some great years of service,...
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How to Become a JavaScript Bad… Shut Yo Mouth!
Ajaxian » Front Page   Brad Neuberg   •  24 days ago  •   rank: 1.0
[Image CC-A by Terry Johnston] A fun post for a Tuesday morning, Aaron Newton shares his path to becoming a JavaScript ninja, and how you can too. Some of his tips (I encourage you to read the whole...
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Scaling an AWS infrastructure - Tools and Patterns
High Scalability   Todd Hoff   •  24 days ago  •   rank: 1.2
This is a guest post by Frédéric Faure (architect at Ysance), you can follow him on twitter. How do you scale an AWS (Amazon Web Services) infrastructure? This article will give you a detailed...
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I Never Meta URL Like You Before: A Short Domain Name Trick
Six Revisions   Jacob Gube   •  27 days ago  •   rank: 1.7
I love a good domain name. I sometimes look wistfully back at my youth and think about the swell URLs I would have bought if I had an inkling about what the Internet would become. Today you’re lucky ...
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Designing Web Apps for the iPad
Six Revisions   Jacob Gube   •  29 days ago  •   rank: 1.4
What’s stopping you from creating a functional app/website for the iPad? My answer was the Objective-C coding language, time constraints and having to deal with the infamous Apple App Store. But if...
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Design Patterns and it all
Matt DuVall   •  about 1 month ago  •   rank: 1.0
During my internship here at Pivotal, I have learned quite a few things. One that happened to become apparent quickly was about design patterns and their role in (actual) object-oriented programming,...
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INSIGHT: Let’s be honest. “Sent from my…
Signal vs. Noise   Matt   •  29 days ago  •   rank: 1.9
Let’s be honest. “Sent from my iPhone” really means “I’m not going to bother to proofread and correct this because it would take me an extra 30 seconds.”...
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