August 2007
36 posts
Heading to devLink in October
Well this morning I deiced to bite the built and plop down the huge upfront cost of $50 attend the devLink technical conference down in Nashville on October 12 and 13th. It’s promising to be a pretty good conference with speakers ranging from Rockford Lhotka (of CSLA.Net fame) to Rob Howard (of CommunityServer fame). I’m going to be riding down with a couple of other NuSoft guys, so...
“Tumbling is going back to its original form. Not that of mere linklogging, but...”
– New Trends in the Tumble-o-sphere « NDNL
Don claims another victim of the red blinking... →
Data Visualization: Modern Approaches →
Data presentation can be beautiful, elegant and descriptive.
Identity Through Online Lifestreams →
Steve Rubel starts using Tumblr as a lifestream mechanism
Scott Hanselman's 2007 Ultimate Developer and... →
“If it saves me time, and seamlessly integrates with my life, it’s the bomb.”
Yes, Deep-Fried Oreos, but Not in Trans Fats - New... →
This is what I like about American ingenuity, given a long enough period of time and someone will figure out how to deep fry just about anything editable.
Flickr Architecture | High Scalability →
A nice write up describing the architecture behind Flickr.com…Their architecture has to be quite impressive to be able to handle upwards of +2,500 photos being uploaded per minute.
“…almost all business cards are terrible. They are the leisure suits of the...”
– Seth’s Blog: Business card mistakes
“People are getting sick of registering and re-declaring their friends on every...”
– Thoughts on the Social Graph
Viget, a Grand Rapids wiki →
Designed to help the citizens of Grand Rapids define, describe, and imagine their city, its history, and its future.
BuiltWith.com - Web Technology Profiler →
Find out what a site is built with.
“The best way to be a business leader in the social century is to redesign crummy...”
– Sanders Says: Find a crummy job and do a makeover on it
“So forget about blogs and bloggers and blogging and focus on this — the...”
– Clay Shirky (via gapingvoid)
“…there’s something really obnoxious about a culture that penalizes...”
– There are two sides to every story (Scripting News)
YSlow for Firebug →
YSlow is aFirefox add-on that analyzes web pages and tells you why they’re slow
“Fifteen years of the Pentium brand came to an end today when Intel formally...”
– We Hardly Knew Ye - Gizmodo
“Google has come come up with a novel way to boost the information it has about...”
– Slashdot | Google’s $10 Local Search Play
Comcast ending free service for fire houses,... →
Wow Comcast, greedy much?
“The secret to productivity Don’t watch TV. Especially college sports.”
– The Long Tail: The secret to productivity
Giant Lego man found in Dutch sea →
How weird.
“ok ok insert the Chee chee chee ah ah ah ah music from Friday the 13th”
– Jim
Fear the bridges
All the news this morning is focused on making us fear every bridge we drive over. So annoying.
YouTube Architecture | High Scalability →
Great overview covering lesson’s learned in the growth process of YouTube
“A well-watered corn stalk at this time of year can put 1/2 gallon of water vapor...”
– Things that you never really think about (via 24 Hour News 8 Blogs)