I originally posted this as a comment on Keith Casey's post about Software Development Failures. I've tried to expand my thoughts a bit here. Indicators of failure often stem from the practice of not properly maintaining a large codebase. In most organizations, the focus is on deploying code within a narrow time frame. That is, "ship […]
This is a good overview of common configurations comparing nginx's syntax to apache's. Once you get used to it, I think nginx syntax is easier to understand, and it reads more like an actual script or program. I've been using nginx to host SoccerBlogs.net for 3 months now and its been very solid. In fact,
This super-early look at Internet Explorer baffles me. The biggest benefit they tout is using the DirectX APi to use hardware acceleration for rendering web pages faster. This is like buying me a faster processor and then giving the credit to IE when pages load faster as a resutl. Wouldn’t a good Window Manager offload
Just in time for the holidays, TiVo is dropping their prices. Not only do you get an HD DVR, but you can also stream Netflix movies or purchase on-demand from Amazon Unbox. Thanks to the following discounts, you can now pickup a TiVo HD for $249.99 ($50 discount) or a TiVo HD XL for $499.99
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I really, really hope that it doesn’t come to a work stoppage. As in most labor negotiations, it seems like a lot of posturing on both sides. The players really don’t have a lot of leverage without threatening a strike or stoppage. Let’s hope both sides don’t get too close to the brink that there
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Wow, looks like at least one of my hunches wasn’t too far off the mark. Who’d have thought that the Microsoft Marketing hype might have a hard time delivering? I can think of at least two people. HT Gadgetopia Discussions with a number of ECM practice leads at major SIs (System Integrators) have told me
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This is a pretty balanced look at how Maine’s attempts to reform health care have proved difficult and have had unintended side effects. Its a big gamble to try this on a national level hoping for a different outcome. Maine is the Charlie Brown of health care. The state’s legislators have tried for decades to
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Guilty as charged – my very early code was littered with functions with horrendously long signatures. All the worse in PHP, which doesn’t have a meaningful way to overload functions. Too many parameters means your function is likely trying to do too many things, instead of doing any one thing well. A simple way to
But really, what does that get me? It was with a bit of a smirk that I read about Ubuntu user’s pains in upgrading to Karmic, the latest release. Ubuntu’s previous release upgrade or two had killed my networking, to the point that I had to reinstall the whole OS and I instead switched to
Particularly in emails? I’m curious, and while I’m a fan of cleaner, and short, urls, I can’t find any evidence to support my hunch. If you’re sending links via email, and the url is not hidden behind an href, do complicated looking urls get less clicks? I suspect they would, because users will ignore them