• Economizing can be penny-wise and pound foolish
  "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.
  (tags: design designpatterns domaindrivedesign refactoring)
• the ryan king » Introducing Conveyor
  "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
  (tags: conveyor http messagequeue)
• CitrusByte Effortlessly farm work to an EC2 instance without batting an eye
  "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."
  (tags: ec2 images processing richmedia s3)
• Steve Lawson on facebook for music
  "your friends are a really important part of your audience"
  (tags: facebook music musicpromotion socialnetworking)
• Secrets: index
  An extra preference pane for Mac OS that reveals a whole host of hidden configuration options
  (tags: macosx preferences)
• Microsoft’s Flurry of API News for MIX08
  Microsoft are beginning to adopt the atom publishing protocol
  (tags: atompub microsoft)
• Build Last.fm: Extend your Last.fm experience
  A gallery of last.fm extras built by the community. It’s great to see them profiling these.
  (tags: apis last.fm music)
• Infovore » Making bridges talk
  Tom Armitage’s quick example of how data about "real world" objects can be transmitted through twitter
  (tags: bridges physicalobjects twitter)
• tarantula - Relevance Open Source - Trac
  "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

  (tags: rubyonrails tarantula testing)
• Rethinking Recommendation Engines - ReadWriteWeb
  "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
  (tags: netflix readwriteweb recommendation)
• Delayed Job (DJ) - Too-biased
  "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."
  (tags: backgroundprocessing messagingqueue plugin rubyonrails)
• The Coming Ad Revolution - Esther Dyson - WSJ.com
  (tags: advertising marketing targetting)
• Pulse Laser: Snap
  "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."
  (tags: flow newsreader productivity rss snap)
• Infovore » Demonstrating Snap - the Syndicated Next Action pattern - at Web Directions North 2008
  "We’re demonstrating a concept that’s previously been referred to as RSS-I - “RSS for Interaction“."
  (tags: productivity rss snap)

Recommend this post: