Gowalla Developers on hiring an intern, debunking some myths about internship. Interns take a lot of time and energy, but they can be incredibly rewarding to you and your company. If you want to hire one, make sure they have a dedicated mentor, someone who can and should regularly ask: “Do you have enough to …
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Extrapolation
Take it with the usual grain of salt that should accompany any news of global browser trends, but, extrapolating out from the 2011 trend in StatCounter’s Global Stats Chrome appears set to surpass IE as the most-used desktop browser some time next summer. And that will finally end the 13 year domination of the market …
Timeless
Jeremy Keith on the abrupt removal of the <time> element from the HTML5 spec: When I first heard that Hixie had removed all traces of the time element from the ongoing HTML spec, my knee-jerk reaction was “This is a really bad idea!” But I decided not to jump in without first evaluating the arguments …
Fork CMS 3.0.0
A few days ago, version 3.0.0 of Fork CMS was released. Fork is an Open Source CMS, created by Netlash (and contributors via GitHub). It’s great to see how the CMS has evolved over time (back when I worked at Netlash it was version 0.6 / 0.7). Key changes since 2.x are: Positions in the …
Storing hundreds of millions of simple key-value pairs in Redis
At Instagram, they’re using Redis (comparable to Memcached, but with more options) to map photoIds to userIds. After tweaking their setup — by using Redis hashes (dictionaries that are can be encoded in memory very efficiently) — in Redis, they’ve brought memory usage down from 70MB to 16MB to store 1,000,000 records. While prototyping this …
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