Performance is huge. We think of it as a feature. Speed is the best feature your product can have. Last year Google introduced these performance enhancements to Picasa to make flipping through photos faster, and the usage more than doubled. When a site gets twice as fast, it often gets more than twice as much …
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How to install MediaWiki on a subdomain
Here is how to set up MediaWiki on a subdomain and use pretty/short URLs. This was tested on July 1, 2010 with MediaWiki 1.15.4, PHP 5.2.8, MySQL 5.0.90 and Apache 2.2.11. This assumes you are in a shared hosting situation, and do not have root access and cannot edit the Apache configuration files directly. Your …
Journalists denied access to gulf
I saved six cents
Thanks, Bonktown.
Indexed explains the music industry
how to delete .svn directories
find . -name .svn -type d -print0 | xargs -0 /bin/rm -fr
Finding Forrester (he’s not at JCCSF)
One of my favourite scenes from Finding Forrester is when Jamal corrects Professor Crawford: Prof. Robert Crawford: [to Jamal] Perhaps your skills do reach farther than basketball. Jamal: “Further” Prof. Robert Crawford: What? Claire Spence: [whispered to Jamal] Don’t… Jamal: [to Crawford] You said that my skills reached “farther” than basketball. “Farther” relates to distance, …
Spammer fail
Dogs don’t buy dog food
A customer is someone who buys software. A user is someone who uses software. When it comes to enterprise software, these stop being the same person. This is why enterprise software is so bad.
Data. It’s not sexy. It works.
Engineers Without Borders is running a terrific ad in Engineering Dimensions. I can’t make this any better.