Service-oriented Songkick James Coglan writing at the Songkick blog re: the migration of their monolithic Rails app into modularized components and a service-oriented architecture. Interesting case study, and definitely worth the 10 minutes. (tagged: service-oriented architecture Rails Songkick James Coglan ) Colson Whitehead’s Rules for Writing Colson Whitehead, writing at NYTimes.com: Most people say, “Show, […]
Dear CostCo folks– My shopping experience with you has been pretty satisfactory so far. First off, I’m not in it for the aesthetics–the warehouse space is clean but can be a bit overwhelming and crowded and maybe even bewildering. And that’s OK–it’s become something of a joke 1 which eases the tension enough for us […]
5.5. Case study: Dumb Quotes via lepht (at [Dive Into Greasemonkey]) (tagged: webdev javascript regex todo ) Repeat after me: Unicode is not UTF-\d{1,2} via lepht (via reddit.com): short version: Unicode is a standard, and UTF-(8|16|32) are character encodings that support encoding Unicode data into byte strings. (tagged: Unicode text dev essay todo ) Modeling the […]
IE8 and the X-UA-Compatible situation (tagged: webdev ie8 http work todo ) Goodreads vs Twitter: The Benefits of Asymmetric Follow at O'Reilly Radar — funny… I said this over a year ago… 😉 (tagged: Goodreads social Twitter ) Three Wolf Moon T-Shirt, Available in Various Sizes at Amazon.com — as if the shirt was not […]
Coffee reduces Alzheimer’s risk: study via /.: Best news ever? *bzzz*bzzz*bzzz* (tagged: coffee news health science ) Circuit City fails to be wanted, will now be liquidated via Engadget – this is what happens when your recovery strategy includes firing your best retail employees and replacing them with greenhorns who, while paid out at â…“-½ […]