Coding Thriller

I'm staring at a configuration dialog. While playing with the connection string for the past hour or so, I've learned the subtleties...

Like most programmers, I've struggled for years to pry myself away from distractions. As engineers, we're in the precarious situat...

I believe that right now we are living in a bizarre era of the web that will be looked back on as a charming, fun, but mostly misguided peri...

Wolfram|Alpha is a new type of tool: a computational knowledge engine (CKE.) Sadly, while the engine itself is brilliant, it is a struggle t...

SimpleDB Primer I've started digging into Amazon SimpleDB, which is one of these newfangled "Hashtable in the cloud" systems t...

In my last post, I talked about S3 Caching of RESTful services. The sad part about this approach is that you inevitably will run into cross-...

One of the best ways to speed up a web application is to introduce some form of caching. Fragment caching on app servers, object caching usi...

AJAX = Client-Server AJAX is all the rage these days, but web applications written in AJAX are really nothing more than a version of the cli...

Hungarian notation is probably the most undervalued, misunderstood concept in modern programming history. It's time to forget everything...