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Speeding up a Rails request by 150ms by changing 1 line
We’re pretty obsessed with performance at Gilt Groupe . You can get a taste for what we’re dealing with, and how we’re dealing with it, from our recent presentation at RailsConf .
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 8,472 posts.
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REST APIs must be hypertext-driven » Untangled
Posted by Roy T. Fielding under software architecture , web architecture [51] Comments
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WebKit gets a new JavaScript profiler courtesy of 280 North (YC W08)
New Profiling and Debugging Tools in WebKit
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Attention Developers: Google Analytics API Launched
A Google Analytics API has long been one of our most widely anticipated features. Today we're pleased to announce that the Google Analytics ...
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Don’t use @import
In Chapter 5 of High Performance Web Sites , I briefly mention that @import has a negative impact on web page performance. I dug into this deeper for my talk at Web 2.0 Expo , creating several test pages and HTTP waterfall charts, all shown below. The bottomline is: use LINK instead of @import if you want stylesheets…
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How to block the DiggBar
Digg now uses something they call the DiggBar, which serves as both a new interface for Digg and doubles as a URL shortening service, and which frames the content of the site they’re linking to. Here’s how to block it.
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Beautiful Horizontally Centered Menus/Tabs/List. No CSS hacks. Full cross-browser.
A simple cross-browser method of centering tabbed menus with pure CSS and no hacks.
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Why People Don’t Install Firefox - Part III
In Part I we discussed a framework around understanding the Firefox user experience at the moment a person installs Firefox. In Part II we walked ...
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The problems with url shorteners
URL shortening services have been around for a number of years . Their original purpose was to prevent cumbersome URLs from getting fragmented by broken email clients that felt the need to wrap everything to an 80 column screen. Addendum: They're useful in print , too. But it's 2009 now, and this problem no longer…
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Daring Fireball: Complex
Gall’s Law and the iPhone.
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Patch to fix RSS feed for News.YC
I’m an avid reader of news.yc , but it’s annoyed me for some time that the RSS feed is rather broken. So, I decided to dust off my Lisp skills and give it a go. The biggest chunk was adding code to do conversion from UNIX timestamps to UTC in Arc. Significant stuff that works now:
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Django 1.1 beta released
Posted by Jacob Kaplan-Moss on March 23, 2009
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Jakob Nielsen: Mega Drop-Down Navigation Menus Work Well
Large, rectangular menus group navigation options to eliminate scrolling and use typography, icons, and tooltips to explain users' choices.
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Undo Send in Gmail
Posted by Michael Leggett, User Experience Designer Sometimes I regret sending a message the morning after . Other times I send a message an...
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Chrome Gets Plugins: How to Write a Chrome Extension in Three Easy Steps
I just installed a “hello world” Chrome extension from this Chrome Extension tutorial page. When you surf to www.google.com, the Google logo is replaced with a Lolcat: Here’s how …
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