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Monthly Archives: September 2011
Sharding & IDs at Instagram
With more than 25 photos & 90 likes every second, we store a lot of data here at Instagram. To make sure all of our important data fits into memory and is available quickly for our users, we’ve begun to … Continue reading
AlphaDog Prototype
BigDog‘s big — and LittleDog‘s bigger — brother. By the looks of it, it also has a new trick up its sleeve: rollover. Neat!
HTML For Babies Book
One for my son Finn, … and for some of my students: HTML For Babies Book →
Browser Market Pollution
Paul Irish on how our future as a web developer will look like. Worst part yet: the (predicted) 10 versions of IE you’ll be supporting, sound more like 72 versions (if things keep going as they are going now). Maybe … Continue reading
CSS Regions and CSS Exclusions
Adobe’s aforementioned CSS Regions and CSS Exclusions (which can be faked via The Box Office, a tool I once wrote a long (long!) time ago) have landed in Webkit/Chromium and in IE10 preview. Demos can be seen in the video … Continue reading
If PHP were British
When Rasmus Lerdorf first put PHP together, he opted for that bastard dialect of the Queen’s English commonly referred to as “US English”. PHP developers in Britain have been grumpy about this ever since. What was he thinking? And more … Continue reading
Future Friendly
Future Friendly is a manifesto / call to arms for making sure that our strategies for technology, design, and content will work fine on today’s and on the next-gen devices. While we can’t know exactly what the future will bring, … Continue reading
Conference Nonsense
Andy Budd on conferences, with some figures to explain why a ticket to a 3-day/3-track conference will cost you about $1K: The truth is that conferences are hugely costly to run and what seems like a massive profit to the … Continue reading
Job Application
Carsonified is looking for a designer. What caught my eye are the instructions on how to apply: Design and code a 1-page ‘dashboard’ app for your life. Pretend it’s an app that you view/edit these stats: Heart rate Drinks consumed … Continue reading
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