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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. 8,472 posts.
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Google Chrome, Google's Browser Project
Today there was a comic book in my mail, sent by Google and drawn by no less than Scott McCloud, creator of the classic Understanding Comics . Within the 38 pages, which I’ve scanned and put up , in very readable format Google gives the technical details into a project of theirs: an open source browser called Google…
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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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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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Mistakes in Web Design
The 10 most egregious UX offenses against users. Web design disasters and HTML horrors are legion, though many usability atrocities are less common than they used to be.
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URL Rewriting for Beginners
A beginner's guide to URL rewriting, with plenty of examples.
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Google Knol is Evil
Google Knol gives its own content unfair PageRank advantages over competitors, which is an abuse of monopoly power. Google has crossed the line from organizing the world's information to stealing traffic from better sources and monetizing the theft. This is evil, plain and simple.
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Three vulnerabilities every web application developer should know about
Here's another great lecture from Google Tech Talks. This lecture is given by Neil Daswani, who has a Ph.D. from Stanford and currently works at Google as a security engineer. He is also an author of a book titled "Foundations of Security: What Every Programmer Needs to Know", which teaches you state-of-the-art...
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Reddit, Stumbleupon, Del.icio.us and Hacker News Algorithms Exposed
It is greatly ironic that algorithms, the quintessential example of all that is not human, would be so fundamental to social media. Last week I wrote a post about how Google gathers user data. This week I continue by exposing how popular social media websites use algorithms to ut...
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Google: we're having scaling issues, please stop distributing your FF extension
Google's public relations efforts are exemplified by their friendly communication regarding a user's Firefox extension, showcasing a collaborative approach over legal threats.
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The Perfect 3 Column Liquid Layout
3 column website layouts in Flexbox, CSS Grid, and Responsive Columns, along with live demos, the HTML, and CSS to make them work.
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Unwritten Google Webmaster Guideline: Don't End URLs in .0
Many of you saw this post from seoco.co.uk this morning (or its Sphinn thread) about our Web 2.0 Awards being removed from Google's index. We noticed the same thing late last night and spent some time this morning going through what could have happened. We ...
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JQuery 1.2.6: Events 100% faster
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
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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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Sneaking Ruby Through Google App Engine (and Other Strictly Python Places)
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The Web Developer's SEO Cheat Sheet
You’re an SEO. You’ve mastered Moz’s starter guide to Search Engine Optimization . You deal with botched site migrations, messy title tags across thousands of pages, earth-shaking Google algorithm changes, and more on the daily. Who would have thought that one of the toughest parts of your job would be getting your…
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The Web’s the Place
I’ve been following some discussions about the future of software applications, and a phrase that came up in my dinner with Robb Beal has been echoing in my mind. What it comes down to is this: if you want to develop software, you can build for the Web and/or Unix and/or OSS platforms; or alternatively, you can be a…
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Metacrap
Version 1.1, May 18 2001. Changed section orders for better organization. (Thanks, Raffi). Clarified "metrics" in 2.6 (Thanks, Andy).