facebook stats from Dare
Dare Obasanjo has a nice summary of the Facebook Engineering Road Show. They have some scary / fantastic stats: Mike Shreopfer started his talk with a number of impressive statistics. These stats include the fact that 2 billion pieces of content are shared per week when you add up all of the status updates, comments, likes and other sharing gestures …
Read Moreit’s a matter of trust (or: I dont trust Time Capsule anymore)
So, my time capsule died this morning. No light, no nothing. Dead. Of course, that takes out the rest of the network, too. I took it into Apple today, and they swapped it out for a new 1tb model (I had 500gb before). Cheers Apple, I was only expecting a refurb model. It wasn’t under warranty, but the all our …
Read More4 a day. only 4 a day – or: going back to working in .NET, at home, with good coffee
Next week I’m starting a new job. Off the PHP, back onto the C#. Off web apps, back onto back-end server development. Out of an office, into working at home, on my own (well, when Leonie isn’t at home anyway!). No more 5 days a week, I’m down to 4 now. All very different. All very familiar. I’m rather looking …
Read MoreWhy FaceBook, Digg and Twitter are so hard to scale
This is a very good read. Even if FaceBook and the BBC homepage (which I work on at the moment) was doing the same traffic (we are not, not even close), the work load wouldn’t even be in the same order of magnitude. Now think what happens on Facebook. Let’s say you have 200 friends. When you hit your Facebook …
Read MoreTortoiseGit vrs Mac: How to get around git-upload-pack: command not found
Just a quick one, as I’ve having fun with TortoiseGit talking (via SSH) to my Mac Mini, which has a SVN-pulled codebase on it. I got this error when I tried to do an initial clone (or anything else): git-upload-pack : command not found After a bit of a google around, the solution is easy. This assumes you have git …
Read Morelucene.net guest post up on simo’s blog!
I wrote up a guest post for Simone, about how I’ve used Lucene and Lucene.NET in the past. He’s put it up today! This includes my experience at IDG (in the first .COM boom/bomb), AfterMail/Quest and on the Top Gear website. The existing AfterMail product used a very simple index system: break up a document into it’s component words, either …
Read Moreexcellent lucene.net posts from simo
If you havn’t read them – or dont know what Lucene.NET is, read them. Now. How to get started with Lucene.NET Lucene.NET – the main concepts Lucene.NET – your first application More coming soon, but good if you want an intro to Lucene.NET
Read Morequickie snow leopard upgrade tips
I’ve upgraded two of our three macs over the weekend, using two different methods. Both worked flawlessly out of the box. Here’s some of the “how” The Full Monty. I make a habit of upgrading and replacing the drives on our macbooks every 12 months or so, and this has timed well with OS releases from Apple. This time I …
Read Moremore on architects and titles
From the previous post, Alex raised some good points: I’ve always kept GHD and distinguished developer separate in my mind, I see GHD as a ruthless pragmatist, with a rich set of client interaction/translation skills and a wealth of real world experience. A distinguished developer to me often represents someone with raw intellectual horsepower, or the developer you can throw …
Read Morearchitects. or why business cards need to be bigger (or have smaller text)
I’ve been thinking a bit – especially after talking to Dan North over a coffee last week – about titles in software development, and I’m fast coming to the conclusion that titles are for other people – and I mean that in both ways. I mean that in that I am not overly interested in a “title” any more. It’s …
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