There are tools out there that allow automated mass-hacking of Wordpress instances that provides the attacker with a full shell access, file management and tools to clean up the traces. Quite impressive.
Roy Fielding provides a six-item checklist to review your HTTP-based API to find out wether it is proper REST or not.
From the makers of Tomboy: "Erlang-style concurrency with JavaScript". Has support for DOM and AJAX - I am looking forward to Google Gears worker threads support.
A number of Swing components that allow you to create interfaces with a Mac OS X appeal.
"Latency matters. Amazon found every 100ms of latency cost them 1% in sales. Google found an extra .5 seconds in search page generation time dropped traffic by 20%. A broker could lose $4 million in revenues per millisecond if their electronic trading platform is 5 milliseconds behind the competition."
Designing social software for small groups and specific contexts offers a multitude of advantages compared to designing social software for massive groups and general contexts.
The elastic block store allows you to mount up to twenty raw block devices (even in striped mode, to increase performance) on one EC2 instance at a time. You can format it with a file system of your choice, remount to other EC2 instances on the fly and create snapshots to S3.
The Golden Rule of Building Stuff: "ONLY BUILD STUFF FOR YOURSELF". The whole rant boils down to this rule.
be fast, be consistent, do not interrupt, do not notify, do not give information that does not help, hard things can be hard (but not impossible), undo is better than yesnocancel, fail gracefully, do not forget, provide more than one navigation, design before you code. These rules rule!
Overview of the architectural components of the Shindig API in its Java implementation.
via sideshowbarker: "dictionary of algorithms, algorithmic techniques, data structures, archetypal problems, and related definitions. Algorithms include common functions, such as Ackermann's function. Problems include traveling salesman and Byzantine generals"
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