The Chicken Coop Development, with chickens. Because chickens are cool. (aka Nic Wise's blog)

Archive for October 2009

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 [...]

it’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, [...]

The Stig Army prepaires to say nothing

Westfield Plaza.
Leonie says:
some say, they only hunt in packs when their girlfriend is away…
some say, they can’t leave the house before 10am in the winter or their helmets frost up on the inside and they can’t see to drive…
all we know is, they’re called the stig(s)
I think the show should be back on shortly – [...]

4 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 [...]

Why 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 [...]

Morning fishing in Canary Wharf

TortoiseGit 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 [...]

Sunset over London Town