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Links for November 4th through November 6th

November 6, 2011

The Netflix Tech Blog: Benchmarking Cassandra Scalability on AWS – Over a million writes per second – Netflix is using Cassandra on AWS as a key infrastructure component of its globally distributed streaming product. Cassandra scales linearly far beyond our current capacity requirements, and very rapid deployment automation makes it easy to manage. In particular, [...]

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Links for September 10th through September 12th

September 12, 2011

Google & the Future of JavaScript | Infrequently Noted – Simply stated, Google is absolutely committed to making JavaScript better, and we’re pushing hard to make it happen. InfoQ: Agile and Architecture Conflict – There is a constant tussle between following Agile techniques and still managing to do enterprise architecture. While Agile development focuses on [...]

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Links for August 1st through August 5th

August 5, 2011

Martin Fowler on Software Patents – At a time when our future affluence depends so heavily on innovation, we have drifted toward a patent regime that not only fails to fulfil its justifying function, to incentivise innovation, but actively impedes innovation Microsoft to focus on HTML5 and JavaScript for Office 15 extensions | ZDNet – [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for February 15th through February 19th

February 19, 2011

10 Useful Tools For Cross-Browser Compatibility Check – In this article you will find ten useful tools that you can use for your cross-browser compatibility check Google Chrome Blog: Faster than a speeding rabbit: speed, sync, and settings – In our new beta release, JavaScript is as quick as a bunny. With a new speed [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for February 1st through February 5th

February 5, 2011

Sketching: the Visual Thinking Power Tool – Sketching provides a unique space that can help you think differently, generate a variety of ideas quickly, explore alternatives with less risk, and encourage constructive discussions with colleagues and clients. Data Wrangler – Wrangler is an interactive tool for data cleaning and transformation. Spend less time formatting and [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for January 11th through January 16th

January 16, 2011

Website Response Times (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox) – The 3 response-time limits are the same today as when I wrote about them in 1993 (based on 40-year-old research by human factors pioneers) Report Cites Problems with FBI’s Approach to Agile Development — Application Development Trends – Add the FBI to the list of federal government agencies [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for July 15th through July 19th

July 19, 2010

Amazon Says E-Books Now Top Hardcover Sales – NYTimes.com – The growth rate of Kindle sales tripled after Amazon lowered the price of the device in late June to $189 from $259, Amazon said Buttonwood: A mirage, not a miracle | The Economist – Analysing the recent performance of the banking industry, he concludes that [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for July 2nd through July 6th

July 7, 2010

Fareed Zakaria – Obama’s CEO problem — and ours – The Federal Reserve recently reported that America's 500 largest nonfinancial companies have accumulated an astonishing $1.8 trillion of cash on their balance sheets Data URIs make CSS sprites obsolete | NCZOnline – CSS sprites were a solution to the problem of multiple HTTP requests to [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for June 15th through June 18th

June 18, 2010

Joe Biden on Joe Barton: "Incredibly Out of Touch" | Blue Wave News – Joe Biden Says All That Needs to Be Said About Joe Barton’s Apology New JRockit book – A new book, "Oracle JRockit: The Definitive Guide", has just been published Introducing the Google Command Line Tool – Google Open Source Blog – [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for May 16th through May 19th

May 19, 2010

Introducing App Engine for Business – Google App Engine – Google Code – App Engine for Business enables you to build your enterprise applications on the same scalable systems that power Google applications. App Engine for Business provides all the ease of use and flexibility of App Engine with more power to manage enterprise use [...]

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