links for 2008-03-03
-
"Pick up the source code for a program and three highlighter markers, one green, one yellow, and one red." leading into a good discussion of separating problem and infrastructure.
-
"One way of describing it is as a “distributed, rewindable, virtual queue server”. It speaks HTTP and will soon have a peer-to-peer replication mode. It can be treated like a queue, but because it doesn’t actually get rid of any data, you can r
-
"With this gem and utilizing Amazon’s EC2 cloud and S3 storage backend, you can easily process media files in a non-blocking, threaded way and do it all inline with the rest of your application."
-
"your friends are a really important part of your audience"
-
An extra preference pane for Mac OS that reveals a whole host of hidden configuration options
-
Microsoft are beginning to adopt the atom publishing protocol
-
A gallery of last.fm extras built by the community. It’s great to see them profiling these.
-
Tom Armitage’s quick example of how data about "real world" objects can be transmitted through twitter
-
"Tarantula is a big fuzzy spider. It crawls your Rails application, fuzzing data to see what breaks." – it’d be nice to see this as a gem that can be used on general web apps, not just rails
-
"In this post we argue that the improvement in recommendation engines is not an algorithmic problem, but rather a presentation issue. Respinning recommendations as filters and delivering them without setting high expectations is more likely to yield
-
"Delayed::Job or DJ is a asynchronous priority queue which only relies on a simple database table. It doesn’t require you to run a dedicated server like many other systems do."
-
"Recently at Web Directions North, I introduced Snap, the syndicated next action pattern. It’s a way to get all those little interactions out of websites, and all in the same place: your newsreader."
-
"We’re demonstrating a concept that’s previously been referred to as RSS-I – “RSS for Interaction“."
Comments are closed.