Archive for April, 2007
Twitter suffering from Ruby on Rails Performance
This is a nice interview with one of the developers of Twitter, talking about the issues they face with Ruby on Rails when it reaches peak usage. Apparently the site is getting around 11,000 hits a second on peak times, and since Rails cannot talk to more than one database at a time, this is [...]
Pirates Ye Be Warned!
Slashdot reports Logistep is using the system called File Sharing Monitor to track P2P users who are sharing illegal copies of games. In a nutshell, the system works by tracking the illegal files that are shared on the P2P network, tracking and logging user IPs and tracing them. The hope is that those trace information [...]
Google Pulls DoubleClick Infront Of Microsoft’s Eyes
Competition is healthy they say. You know why? The $2 billion price tagged DoubleClick has ended up in a $3.1 billion Google deal, leaving Microsoft out of luck, and once again, Google beats Microsoft and dominates the internet advertisement. Some people argued the $2 billion is overpriced. How about $3.1 billion now. Perhaps the company [...]
How much does Psychonauts cost?
Following the high reviews it received, and my friend Kroms’s nagging and pushing, I decided to ignore my demo perception and still buy Psychonauts. After all, how much would it cost? $9 only on Amazon. I didn’t want however to pay for the shipping, so I thought of looking for a downloadable soft version of [...]
Apple, Mozilla and Opera unite for HTML5
While Microsoft are still struggling to meet the current HTML standards in their IE7, and along comes the nightmare of web developers to support IE6 & IE7 (since IE7 is only distributed this time for licensed Windows versions), Apple, Mozilla and Opera are pushing the wheels and increasing the pressure on W3c for the adoption [...]
No 4 NoFollow
Few weeks back I have started moderating all the comments, sadly, and added an extra math challenge that you have to pass before being able to post on my blog. I did not include any advanced math nor Laplace, but it’s just to increase the IQ of people posting in my blog to a limit [...]
Web Apps for online project and team management
While Basecampe is probably the most famous web app for project management, this article discusses the weakness of this app, and shed the light on other competitors in the market. If you have a team working virtually, or like to keep your information synchronized in one place, try to look at the alternatives they have.