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Comment on Gearman by The Technician | Distributed Updates

The Technician | Distributed Updates — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 18:27:49 +0000

[...] system. Popular systems include: RabbitMQ and Gearman. Personally, I’ve made great use of Gearman. It’s easy to install, as is the PHP [...]

Comment on Development without Internet Access by Jeremy Hitchcock

Jeremy Hitchcock — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:39:00 +0000

I wouldn’t get down on it. u00a0If I wanted to play Battleship, I’d look for an online game and be entertained or I could dig through my old CS stuff and find my assembler version – I’ll be more entertained with the first. u00a0In the same way, is it wrong to use a module, complex built-in, etc?nnIt’s about focus and knowing that there are certain things that only you can do. u00a0Do those and nothing else.

Comment on Development without Internet Access by Jessica Darko

Jessica Darko — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:26:00 +0000

I remember those days. I remember having many books open on my desk at the same time. One on top of each other. u00a0Since they were stacked like this I couldn’t see the covers or spines, but I knew them by thickness. I’d pull out all those books constantly for reference material. u00a0You didn’t google for framework info, you had a book on the framework. u00a0nnnDevelopment was much slower.nnThere’s a limit to how much you can keep on the tip of your memory. u00a0I learned early on that when I’d go on a job interview and get quized with questions like “What’s the API to do X in win32? u00a0What’s the parameters?” u00a0that the place was a crappy place to work– that’s what books are for! u00a0Anyone who memorizes that crap has forgotten all the really important stuff about architecture, etc.u00a0nnAnyway. The net has replaced the books. u00a0This may explain why the books these days are often much lower quality than I remember them being…

Comment on SXSW isn’t for Backend Devs Anymore by Kelsey Falter

Kelsey Falter — Tue, 17 May 2011 05:39:00 +0000

Agree with your comment about sxsw switching from doing cool stuff to talking about what is believed to be cool. So many things shift their focus away from core competency once the masses jump on the bandwagon. It’s always hard to walk that line between appealing to the masses slightly and becoming diluted kool-aid.

Comment on Explain your code by David

David — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 23:26:00 +0000

Fantastic idea

Comment on I'll buy time any day. by Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 22:04:00 +0000

To true. I think we all forget this sometimes. We will spend lots of time answering surveys, and taking tests, and doing things we don’t like to save a little bit of money, when we wasted a lot of time. Thanks for the post.

Comment on Sphinx Full Text Search Engine by The Technician | Search is Hard

The Technician | Search is Hard — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 01:58:34 +0000

[...] are ways to simplify building search. Sphinx provides great matching capabilities and incredibly fast sorting. When combined with other data, [...]

Comment on Sandboxes by The Technician | Ode to the Environment

The Technician | Ode to the Environment — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:40:13 +0000

[...] need to be able to replicate the Environment quickly, identify when issues are caused by it, sandbox it, and be comfortable building it from scratch, if it comes to that. (Hopefully, it never [...]

Comment on Gmail actually gets something really wrong. by admin

admin — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 04:47:03 +0000

While I’m torn on the matter, I can’t say it benefits all. The purpose of clipping was surely to provide speed, bu it does so at the cost of damaging the reputation of anyone attempting to provide a rich, beautiful experience via email. While we *are* somewhat of an edge case, our broken newsletter could be considered an exception to what Gmail is trying to achieve. Our users, who appreciate great design, lost out. We, as a company, lost credibility.

Comment on Gmail actually gets something really wrong. by eric

eric — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:50:38 +0000

Simple solution, really, and benefits everyone: Don’t use HTML email. That is all.