Nick Jennings
Silverbucket.net | Nick Jennings - freelance web developer. Hockey. Design. Contacts. Music. Help. Pearltrees videos. Development. Comedy. Tech. Google Apps Users Will Get All Google Services Later This Year - Sustainability, My Biggest Challenge Yet — Elliot Haughin. 7 Lessons Learned While Bu. Steve Huffman, co-founder of social news site Reddit, gave an excellent presentation (slides, transcript) on the lessons he learned while building and growing Reddit to 7.5 million users per month, 270 million page views per month, and 20+ database servers.
Steve says a lot of the lessons were really obvious, so you may not find a lot of completely new ideas in the presentation. But Steve has an earnestness and genuineness about him that is so obviously grounded in experience that you can't help but think deeply about what you could be doing different. And if Steve didn't know about these lessons, I'm betting others don't either. There are seven lessons, each has their own summary section: Lesson one: Crash Often; Lesson 2: Separation of Services; Lesson 3: Open Schema; Lesson 4: Keep it Stateless; Lesson 5: Memcache; Lesson 6: Store Redundant Data; Lesson 7: Work Offline. Lesson one: Crash Often The essence of this lesson is: automatically restart failed and cancerous services. How will memristors change. A non-random sample of my tech friends shows that not many have heard of memristors (though I do suspect vote tampering).
I'd read a little about memristors in 2008 when the initial hubbub about the existence of memristors was raised. I, however, immediately filed them into that comforting conceptual bucket of potentially revolutionary technologies I didn't have to worry about because like most wondertech, nothing would ever come of it. Wrong. After watching Finding the Missing Memristor by R. Stanley Williams I've had to change my mind. Memristors have gone from "maybe never" to holy cow this could happen soon and it could change everything. Let's assume for the sake of dreaming memristors do prove out. I don't know, but it's worth thinking about, especially if you want to ride the wave of the next decade's technological revolution (Bell's Law of Computer Classes). I will do a lot of "not pretending" in this article. A Memristor is Like a Pipe (seriously) It Replaces RAM, Flash and Disk.
Bizo developer blog. Building Smartphone Apps. With Ruby: Rhodes. Rhodes is an open source framework for building native applications for all major smartphone operating systems: iPhone, Windows Mobile, RIM, Symbian and Android using Ruby as the development language. It has access to native device capabilities such as GPS geolocation, PIM contact reading/writing and camera image capture. Development process can be called as "easier" with Rhodes as most of your UI customization can be done in HTML templates.
There are integrated styling libraries for matching the look and feel of native applications (ex: for iPhone, it is based on iUI and jQTouch can be used as well). Wild Fox Project - Front Page.