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LinkedIn Search: A Look Beneath the Hood

Seems obvious that the solution to a slow database should be fixing the slow database, but the much more common solution is to put a lot of stuff in front of that slow database that tries to hide the shame. ^{link »}

Often it would be better to keep as much of the database as possible in memory and maximize the performance of the database ^{link »}

Basecamp Launches (Signal vs. Noise)

Not only does Basecamp improve client communications it also improves client loyalty. Once clients start using the tool they'll never want to go back to the old way of doing business. Your client's experience becomes completely proprietary. This leap forward in project tracking becomes a large part of their relationship with your firm and they'll have to think long and hard about giving that up if they decide to switch creative resources. ^{link »}

Rails 3 Beta is Out — A Retrospective | Engine Yard Blog

we have completely removed references to other frameworks from Railties itself, making the frameworks of Rails true extensions to Rails itself ^{link »}

Contrast | The Blog | The thickness of napkins

quality is fractal . That is to say quality offerings display self similarity. Any small part of it, is indicative of its whole. This lets you make a good judgement about an entire product by looking at a very small portion of it. ^{link »}

Computers shouldn't make people feel like idiots - (37signals)

The Real Work is not formatting the margins, installing the printer driver, uploading the document, finishing the PowerPoint slides, running the software update or reinstalling the OS. ^{link »}

The Real Work is teaching the child, healing the patient, selling the house, logging the road defects, fixing the car at the roadside, capturing the table’s order, designing the house and organising the party. ^{link »}

The ‘Anonymous Coward’ above is called Rob and he feels stupid that he forgot to enter his name and then wasn’t given the chance to rectify it before having the message posted. ^{link »}

SharedCopy: thenextweb.com

Code: Flickr Developer Blog » Ticket Servers: Distributed Unique Primary Keys on the Cheap

Conversion Room: Improve your web-forms and increase conversions

High Scalability - High Scalability - How FarmVille Scales to Harvest 75 Million Players a?Month

Daring Fireball Linked List: 'The Gadget Disappears'

One thing you have to understand about this gadget is that the gadget disappears pretty quickly. You’re looking into pure software. ^{link »}

On Android, many things happens on screen with touch, but many other things don’t, and you’re often leaving the screen for the hardware Back, Menu, and Home buttons, and text selection and editing requires the use of the fiddly trackball. An Android gadget never disappears. ^{link »}

Sketchpad - Online Paint/Drawing application

Why I love everything you hate about Java « Magic Scaling Sprinkles