I’ve always been a bit uncomfortable with the claims of 250 req/sec for this and 500 req/sec for that. It’s never felt quite….right. Or real. After all how many sites truly get that many concurrent requests? How many visitors a day would you need to get spikes of 500 req/sec hitting your server? Well it [...]
I read this blog post and thought it was a good idea. Having a list of what technologies, languages, etc you plan on learning for the year. I had one last year but forgot this time round. So I know it’s April but I thought I’d throw together my list: CodeIgniter Framework – A lightweight [...]
Not sure where Google is going with this one but they appear to have opened a ‘university’ with a variety of topics offering learning materials, lessons and vids. There isn’t much so far but if it goes in the direction I’m hoping then its got a hell of a lot of potential. They provide a [...]
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As a developer the design of an applications interface can often take a second peg to the function-guts. I always like to have a dig around a selection of good icon sets though to spruce up my interfaces and these are six of those resources: Search Engines Iconlet – One of the two major icon [...]
Compared to other languages you may have used Ruby can seem a little odd. Flexible syntax, talking foxes and mad Japanese geniuses all make it look rather more like an arcane formula than a programming language. Though learning it really couldn’t be simpler because it flows like your mind. In fact the hardest part of [...]
Not me – the blog. Its been a long while since I last posted and a lots happened between now and then. Skipping over my house move and the Gloucestershire cheese incident I had in the spring its been quite eventful. So apologies for not posting but I shall endeavour to keep up in future. [...]
The team over at 37Signals recently started offering 91 essays across 171 pages of an ebook on web app software development at the respectable price of $19. Getting Real details the business, design, programming, and marketing principles of 37signals. The book is packed with keep-it-simple insights, contrarian points of view, and unconventional approaches to software [...]
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