Coding Thriller

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...