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Oct 13

• Fun With Automated Characterization Test Generation
  4th in a 4-part series

Oct 10

• Axiom Stack - About
  Quick Axiom Stack Facts * All scripting is done in server side ECMAscript (JavaScript) * Axiom Stack provides a unified object model to all content data * Built-in storage behaves like a transparent, hierarchical object database * TALE templating language, a clean and concise XML based attribute system for building templates * Javascript makes language impedance issues arising from AJAX disappear * Axiom Stack is secure by default - no programming needed * Includes everything that you need to build a web application

Oct 08

• SuperTalent mini-PCI Express SSD hard disk cards
  Might be interesting as a way to do something like store vmWare images on a laptop because they don't change much, if you could figure out how to put the temp storage used by them elsewhere
• Ned Batchelder: A server memory leak
  Ignoring whatever technology stack is being discussed in this article, it is an excellent look at the problems of tracking down and debugging operational issues in running an internet-scale website.
• Bill de hÓra: Magnificent Seven - the value of Atom
  the value of Atom is wrapped up in 1. atom:id 2. atom:updated 3. atom:link 4. the extension rules (mustIgnore, foreign markup) 5. the date construct rules 6. the content encoding rules 7. unordered elements [...] Even if you don't like Atom (or XML for that matter), if your carrier format is going to survive on the web, you need to have addressed these 7 primitives. This is what I tell people who prefer something domain specific and direct instead of trying to map the domain in abstract formats like Atom and SOAP - square off those and you're 80% there in terms of format quality and robustness.
• Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - My Website is Bigger Than Your Enterprise
  The funny thing about a lot of the people who claim to be 'Enterprise Architects' is that I've come to realize that they tend to seek complex solutions to relatively simple problems. How else do you explain the fact that web sites that serve millions of people a day and do billions of dollars in business a year like Amazon and Yahoo are using scripting languages like PHP and approaches based on REST to solve the problem of building distributed applications while you see these 'enterprise architect' telling us that you need complex WS-* technologies and expensive toolkits to build distributed applications for your business which has less issues to deal with than the Amazons and Yahoos of this world?

Sep 15

• The unary ampersand in Ruby
  There is lots of other stuff in this article that clarifies how blocks work, and some neat uses for them. But the big, huge takeway for me was that the early example with yield caused a dazzling, ginormous xenon HID lightbulb to go on over my head regarding what yield actually does and how it works in ruby.

Aug 12

• Stevey's Blog Rants: Business Requirements are Bullshit
  "You can look at any phenomenally successful company, and it's pretty obvious that their success was founded on building on something they personally wanted. The extent that any company begins to deviate from this course is the extent to which their ship starts taking on water. And the key leading indicator that they're getting ready to head off course? You guessed it: it's when they start talking about gathering business requirements."

Jul 20

• Beanstalkd - Software - xph.us
  beanstalkd is a fast, distributed, in-memory workqueue service. Its interface is generic, but was originally designed for use in reducing the latency of page views in high-volume web applications by running most time-consuming tasks asynchronously.

Jul 18

• What does the word "Quality" mean?
  it has few known defects in its current state, and we have high confidence that we will not discover defects in its current state over time, and additionally that we will not create further defects in it as we add to or alter its functionality in the normal course of maintaining this software.