Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Nati Shalom's Blog: Designing a Scalable Twitter
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Tags: code, geek, programming, scaling, spaces, systems, twitter
Article about using a 'spaces'-based architectural approach to building a Twitter-like pub-sub/db hybrid system

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

The Guardian Open Platform
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Tags: api, atom, code, geek, json, open, openplatform, platform, programming, xml
I've been working with the dev team here at the Guardian on the API section of the Open Platform: a fully searchable XML, JSON and ATOM API for all Guardian content. It launched into private beta this morning, and quickly took the top two "trending topics" on Twitter. Tom Watson MP had some nice things to say about it, too.

Sunday, November 2, 2008

THE COCOTRON
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Tags: cocoa, crossplatform, linux, mac, objective-c, port, programming, software, windows
MIT-licensed project to implement sufficient Cocoa frameworks on top of an abstracted cross-platform Obj-C layer (including patched gcc toolchain) in order to make a viable Xcode -> Windows cross-compiler. Only Foundation is in place yet but apparently active work on CoreGraphics and AppKit is underway, along with some on CoreData. Seems it's got some way to go but looks good.

Thursday, October 16, 2008

A Million-user Comet Application with Mochiweb, Part 1 | Richard Jones, Esq.
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Tags: c10k, comet, erlang, lastfm, programming, web
last.fm co-founder experimenting with scaling Comet way beyond the C10K mark, with Erlang back-end and some kernel tuning. Via Nilesh.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Shindig - an Apache incubator project for OpenSocial and gadgets
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Tags: geek, google, opensocial, programming
Apache-licensed open-source reference OpenSocial implementation
socialsite: Home
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Tags: google, opensocial, programming
Developer tools, kits, materials for implementing OpenSocial gadgets (widgets) and working on OS implementations

Sunday, August 3, 2008

Sphinx - Free open-source SQL full-text search engine
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Tags: cache, database, db, geek, programming, software, sphinx, sql
Adds a searchable external index of specified data, meaning fast searches without db joins/FULLTEXTs etc.

Friday, July 25, 2008

Comet Daily » Blog Archive » Introducing HTTP Channels
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Tags: code, geek, programming, web
“Comet solution for RESTful real time data synchronization architecture”. Change notification, syncing, etc.

Monday, September 10, 2007

Inversion of Control Containers and the Dependency Injection pattern
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Tags: code, control, fowler, inversion, ioc, pattern, patterns, programming

Monday, September 3, 2007

Refactor Mercilessly
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Tags: geek, refactoring, xp
"WaterFall" theory says only "Analysis" can identify the elements of a program most depended-on by others, and these must be designed and coded first, before their clients are coded. RefactorMercilessly says the longer your program has been committed into