Top 10 Internet Startup Scalability Killers – GigaOM. Compare the recent sale of Friendster for a reported $26.4 million with Facebook’s projected 2010 revenues, of $1 billion, and we have a stark reminder of how the inability to scale can kill a startup.
“All they had to do was keep the damned servers up and running,” Matt Cohler, a former Facebook executive and general partner at Benchmark Capital, says in Adam L. Peneberg’s book “Viral Loop,” but Friendster failed to scale and the cost was enormous. So what should Internet startups avoid in order to grow? As former tech executives and consultants to hundreds of startups, we’ve seen how some companies scale and others fail, and we’ve assembled this knowledge in our recently released book “The Art of Scalability.” Creating an Agile Environment. We Recommend These Resources A few months ago I was contacted by a friend with a problem.
The year was coming to an end and he had let a compliance project slip through the cracks. The compliance deadline was year end which was a mere 5 weeks away. Failure to comply could mean serious government repercussions to his company. My friend asked for help in creating an Agile team and doing an Agile project in the following 5 weeks. Massive List of Rails Development Tips. Posted Friday, September 7, 2007 by topfunky During a brief 2 years of writing Rails applications, I’ve learned many things that have become part of my normal workflow.
I recently published a draft of the first PeepCode PDF minibook. It’s called Ruby on Rails Code Review. It currently contains 16 chapters of tips for building a solid Rails application and I thought it would be useful to briefly mention them here (I’ll be adding one or two more chapters for the final release). Dr Nic » Everything you wanted to know about Ruby.NET. Recently Wayne Kelly spoke at the Brisbane Ruby and Rails Brigade about Ruby.NET ( code repository ). We figured he was some authority figure on the topic, as he wrote it, together with some other members of his QUT department, plus a growing number of Ruby.NET users and contributors. CSS Specificity: Things You Should Know. Advertisement Apart from Floats1, the CSS Specificity is one of the most difficult concepts to grasp in Cascading Stylesheets.
The different weight of selectors is usually the reason why your CSS-rules don’t apply to some elements, although you think they should have. In order to minimize the time for bug hunting you need to understand, how browsers interpret your code. And to understand that, you need to have a firm understanding on how specificity works. In most cases such problems are caused by the simple fact that somewhere among your CSS-rules you’ve defined a more specific selector. CSS Specificity isn’t simple. Let’s take a look at some important issues related to CSS Specificity as well as examples, rules, principles, common solutions and resources.
You can find the most important things you should know about CSS specificity in a brief overview at the beginning of the article. CSS Specificity: An Overview. How to Change the World. Exploration Through Example » Blog Archive » Six years later: What the Agile Manifesto left out. [This is a combination of what I intended to say at XP Day Toronto last weekend and what I did say.
Note: After the talk, a couple of people told me that Kent Beck has some videos that make some of the same points. I haven’t looked at them yet.] [UPDATE: INFOQ has an overview and better link to the Beck videos.] First, a disclaimer: Although I was one of the authors of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development, don’t think that gives me any great authority. If I remember right, my only contribution to it was suggesting the word “manifesto.”
When reading anything, it helps to keep two questions in mind: What’s the intended audience? Don't Use Google, Praise Apple or Deify Digg « The Other Way To Look At Search Surrch.eu. Digg Some of you seem to be under the misconception that you’re right.
Of course you’re not. I’m right, you’re all wrong and I’m going to whinge about it because this is web 2.0 and I can. Migrating to Spring. By Q Ethan McCallum 12/13/2006 Call me late to the party.
The Spring framework party, that is. For you fellow latecomers, Spring is a library of infrastructure code released under the Apache 2.0 license. Which champagne should Jay-Z drink next? By Mike Steinberger. So, Jay-Z really meant it: He's done getting pissy-pissy with the Cris'.
The rap mogul announced last week that he would be boycotting Cristal champagne in response to what he described as "racist" comments by an executive with Louis Roederer, the company that produces the high-priced bubbly. In an article published in the Economist'sIntelligent Life magazine, Frédéric Rouzard, Roederer's managing director, indicated a certain ambivalence about the cachet that Cristal has acquired among Jay-Z and his cohort.