Stop reading this blog and learn something. Software development is a wonderful field to be a noob in. Perhaps more than any other discipline, there is a wealth of information available for free online–everything from fundamental computer science courses, to the night-by-night learning notes of a master programmer. And, of course, there are millions upon millions of lines of Open Source code free for the reading. Unfortunately, this embarassment of riches can be as much stumbling block as well as a stepping-stone.
You can learn a lot from this information overload, but you can also waste a great deal of time and find yourself with very little to show for it. Personally, I’ve probably wasted thousands of hours in this way over the years. It’s only recently that I’ve come to identify the antipattern behind this waste. I hope that in writing this I can help you to avoid my mistakes. The pattern usually looks something like this: Oh man, this web programming stuff is HOT! Do not subscribe to all of the blogs. 25 "Time-saving" Generators for Designers - HTML. Untitled. Graphing Toolkit Rickshaw provides the elements you need to create interactive graphs: renderers, legends, hovers, range selectors, etc.
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Add to that the fact that we wanted to scale up temporarily without spending any money and you have a fun little optimization problem! Starting Point Before I made any changes, I did a simple load test just to see what we were starting with. I installed httperf, and then directed 20 GETs a second for a minute to the index of our site. The good news is that I didn't kill production entirely. I didn't get too upset here; I expected us to do poorly. On a side note, I had absolutely no idea how much traffic to expect from our PR blitz. True App Performance In my initial load test with httperf, I noticed something interesting: the response time to the initial batch of GETs weren't even that good. Page Speed Online.