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Jul 03

• Process Theatre
  Entire post: "You know how Bruce Schneier uses the term Security Theatre to describe measures designed to make us feel safer but not actually safer? I am going to start using the term Process Theatre. I trust you can grasp the meaning immediately."

Jun 27

• /\ndy: Stage 0: Not Ready For Agile
  Sample: "In an agile project, you will not know the project end date or even what features will be delivered in the next iteration. You cannot stand this, and will insist on fixed dates and costs right up front."

Jun 25

• SproutCore » about
  SproutCore is a framework for building [web] applications in JavaScript.... It can help you build full “thick” client applications ... that can create and modify data..., communicating with your server via Ajax only when they need to save or load data

Jun 20

• The Perfect 3 Column Liquid Layout: No CSS hacks. SEO friendly. iPhone compatible.
  Actually it's advertised as "No CSS hacks. SEO friendly. No Images. No JavaScript. Cross-browser & iPhone compatible."

Jun 10

• Velocity - Microsoft Distributed Cache : Simpable
  Velocity is Microsoft's new distributed cache, more enterprisey than memcached in that it tries to handlie versioning etc.
• Cookies are for Closers » LinkedIn Architecture
  At JavaOne 2008, LinkedIn employees presented two sessions about the LinkedIn architecture....This post summarizes the key parts of the LinkedIn architecture. It’s based on the presentations, and on additional comments made during the presentation.
• World Wide Webber - Notes from the Australian Architecture Forum
  "Perhaps if your enterprise architecture was more aligned with the Web, rather than a special-case enterprise fantasy architecture, you'd have a fighting chance"
• CodeProject: Memcached (Distributed Cache) ASP.net Provider
  Just what the title says
• memcached for Win32
  This is a port of memcached to the win32 architecture by Kronuz

Jun 05

• Heroku
  Rails-based competition for Google Apps. Ruby, Rails, EC2 hosting, and an environment to make it easy to build/update/manage apps