Coding Thriller

Crazy ideas in programming.

Saturday, January 28, 2012

How meta can you go?

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I'm staring at a configuration dialog. While playing with the connection string for the past hour or so, I've learned the subtleties...
Thursday, September 29, 2011

The iPad Information Diet

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Like most programmers, I've struggled for years to pry myself away from distractions. As engineers, we're in the precarious situat...
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Monday, May 3, 2010

The Social House of Cards

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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...
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Friday, May 22, 2009

Improving Wolfram|Alpha's User Experience

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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...
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Thursday, April 24, 2008

SimpleDB Full Text Search, or How to Create a Search Engine in 24 Hours

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SimpleDB Primer I've started digging into Amazon SimpleDB, which is one of these newfangled "Hashtable in the cloud" systems t...
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Thursday, January 17, 2008

The Pain of Cross-Domain

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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-...
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Friday, December 21, 2007

Caching RESTful Services on S3

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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...
Thursday, December 6, 2007

Client-First Development with REST

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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...
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Sunday, November 18, 2007

Rediscovering Hungarian Notation

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