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Making Rails 12X Faster
They told you it can't be done, they told you it has no scale. They told you lies! What if you suddenly had the ability to serve mutliple co...
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 14,544 posts.
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John Resig on TraceMonkey
I’ve been waiting to blog about this for a long time now. A fantastic new improvement to Mozilla’s JavaScript engine (SpiderMonkey) has landed. Code-named TraceMonkey this engine utilizes a techniques, called trace trees (PDF), which adds just-in-time native code compilation to SpiderMonkey.
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Detailed review of MIT's OCW course "Introduction to Algorithms", Part I: Analysis of Algorithms and Asymptotic Notation
I just finished watching the last lecture of MIT's "Introduction to Algorithms" course. Having a great passion for all aspects of computing, I decided to share everything I learned with you. This is the first post in an article series about this course. As I wrote earlier, I am very serious about watching video...
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Explaining REST to Damien Katz
Damien Katz recently caused a stir on a bunch of the blogs I read with his post entitled REST, I just don't get it where he wrote As the guy who created ...
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URL Rewriting for Beginners
A beginner's guide to URL rewriting, with plenty of examples.
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Basic MySQL Performance Tuning Practices that Everyone Should Know About
In this post I'll cover a lecture on MySQL performance tuning. This lecture is given by Jay Pipes. Jay works at MySQL and has written a book on MySQL. It's called Pro MySQL and it covers intermediate and advanced features of the database. He also has an interesting blog, which I am long subscribed to - Jay Pipes blog.
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Follow Hacker News from the Console
Here is something neat that I hacked together – a `top' like Python program called Hacker Top that allows you to follow Hacker News from a UNIX terminal! Hacker News has become the 2nd source for news after programming.reddit for me. I have a couple of ideas for a startup myself and the tips I get from Hacker News...
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Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
Why is everyone in such a rush? Walk into any bookstore, and you'll see how to Teach Yourself Java in 24 Hours alongside endless variations offering to teach C, SQL, Ruby, Algorithms, and so on in a few days or hours. The Amazon advanced search for [ title: teach, yourself, hours, since: 2000 and found 512 such books…
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Wanna learn JavaScript? Here are 15 video lectures (with key ideas written out)
I decided I wanted to get better at JavaScript. I've been programming in it for a while but I never really developed any good skills in it. I was just mostly copy pasting examples together and adjusting code to get it working. I recently found a bunch of really good programming video lectures on JavaScript and…
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Processing ported to JavaScript
As a sort-of reverse birthday present I’ve decided to release one of my largest projects, in recent memory. This is the project that I’ve been alluding to for quite some time now :
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Architecture astronauts take over
It was seven years ago today when everybody was getting excited about Microsoft’s bombastic announcement of Hailstorm, promising that “Hailstorm makes the technology in your life work t…
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SICP - summary of 10 months working through the entire book
I've completed the SICP reading project, which I began on June 19th, 2007 . In hindsight, it seems like a very long time (almost a year!), during which this was my main hacking project at home. So, in this conclusion I want to examine my progress, and compare the result with my initial goals.
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Ruby's not ready
A controversial evaluation of the programming language Ruby, version 1.8.