PUBLIC MARKS from user greut

Cometd Bayeux is a publish/subscribe messaging system, and this has drawn some criticism that PubSub is not the most flexible paradigm for an Ajax/Comet transport.

eCouch is an Erlang application that provides access to CouchDb servers.

The power of OTP comes from the fact that properties such as fault tolerance, scalability, dynamic-code upgrade, and so on, can be provided by the behavior itself. In other words, the writer of the callback does not have to worry about [those things] because this is provided by the behavior.

This HOWTO describes a web server written for the day when even Yaws is not quick enough.

The bottleneck in writing code isn’t in the writing of the code, it’s in understanding and conceptualising what needs to be done.

After some recent optimizations, the Dojo Cometd implementation of the Bayeux protocol running on the Jetty web server can now handle up to 20,000 simultaneous users per server while maintaining sub-second latency.

impressive numbers. Does the Twisted one can beat that?

So remember, the quality of the interview you provide influences how the interviewee views the company.

that *is* true.

The single most important thing you must do to improve your programming career is improve your ability to communicate.

with a MacIntosh presentation, they didn't really change over the years.

don't waste time writing code to restrict people

after the video that was great the slide on how YouTube scaled. Interesting as always.

We are happy to announce that the Google Contacts Data API now supports OAuth. This is our first step towards OAuth enabling all Google Data APIs.

that is either great or scary.

In summary, these are my points:

1. I'm not saying Ajax is bad, I'm saying it's immature
2. I'm not saying never use Ajax, I'm saying don't use it for the sake of it, and try to avoid it for now, instead sticking to accessible alternatives

a PHB mandatory article

An interface should be effective, habituating, reliable, efficient, and tested. To the extent that doing so does not conflict with these essentials, an interface should also be attractive.

Both Norman and Hansson agree on one thing: user involvement alone is not enough. Designer vision, expertise and discipline is a vital part of successful innovation.

even if they disagree on who you're designing things for.

a sample Bob (Ippolito) provided to show how to build a webserver using mochiweb

Brian Aker and Alan Kasindorf gave a great talk on Memcached - every developer's favorite caching layer - at MySQL User Conference earlier last week.

with sample architectures in the slides

You can make your clock applet prettier by changing two lines with gconf-editor.

nice tips for you GNOME-lovers. And for sure, a rule to follow - do not hardcode anything users may want to change, customize.

Python module to write FB apps on AppEngine

The Exceptional Performance team has identified a number of best practices for making web pages fast. The list includes 34 best practices divided into 7 categories.

premature optimization is the root of all evil

Bob Ippolito’s excellent presentation about Erlang

The guy behind Mochi(Web,Ads,Kit,...)

“One of the mantras that a large software development company uses is ‘Fail Often, Fail Fast,’ ” Wartenberg said.

I believe in failure too.

PottyMouth transforms completely unstructured and untrusted text to valid, nice-looking, completely safe XHTML.

one of the most over-done task.

Since the release of CSS Level 2 Recommendation ten years ago in may 1998, the Web authors' community has been requesting a way of defining variables in CSS. Variables allow to define stylesheet-wide values identified by a token and usable in all CSS declarations. If a value is often used in a stylesheet - a common example is the value of the color or background-color properties - it's then easy to update the whole stylesheet statically or dynamically modifying just one variable instead of modifying all style rules applying the property/value pair.

w00t!

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