Monthly Archives: September 2007

Website Performance | Tips Tricks and Techniques for Speeding up Your Site Site for the new “High Performance Web Site Techniques” book, plus an interesting sprite generator (tags: css generator images performance web) Bringing Lives to Light: Biography in Context … Continue reading →

Inspirational Technology: XML Document Construction With Python and libxml2 The libxml Python API is very lightly documented, so this is an attempt to fill in some of the holes that exist. (tags: python xml libxml2) Production Matching for Large Learning … Continue reading →

PatHelland’s WebLog : Memories, Guesses, and Apologies A nice exposition of eventual consistency. Makes the point that there’s no difference to the end user whether a transaction failed because a forklift crushed the product or a dirty read said it … Continue reading →

Shirky: In Praise of Evolvable Systems How come I’ve never seen this before? He gives three rules, but only one is important IMHO: “Only solutions that produce partial results when partially implemented can succeed.” I think that’s true for other … Continue reading →

eAccelerator: PHP Accelerator, optimizer, dynamic content cache (tags: caching php performance) SimplePie: Super-fast, easy-to-use, RSS and Atom feed parsing in PHP. (tags: atom rss php feed) A Collection of JVM Options A loooong list I might add (tags: java options … Continue reading →

S3 Memory consistency model Great find by Dan (@pragmatic dictator). I’m very interested in how you explain this to developers whose experience is confined to strong consistency database models. (tags: consistency distributed s3 amazon)

Engineering Open House At Google – Rumor: Google will Release BigTable/GFS/MapReduce to the Public « Kevin Burton’s NEW FeedBlog (tags: google mapreduce distributed bigtable gfs)

Rockbox – Open Source Jukebox Firmware (tags: audio opensource mp3 music hardware)