Monthly Archives: July 2009
To REST or not to REST
Yesterday @esjewett pointed out that tarpipe‘s API 2.0 might not be considered RESTful. Quoting the previously written article “A RESTful ESME API“: REST is often seen as an alternative to RPC APIs, or “Remote Procedure Call” APIs. At root, the … Continue reading
Performance oriented FFT
Worth checking out. Quoting the FFTW Home Page: FFTW is a C subroutine library for computing the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) in one or more dimensions, of arbitrary input size, and of both real and complex data (as well as … Continue reading
Pie charts are overrated
Quoting Seth’s Blog: How to make graphs that work: Pie charts are spectacularly overrated. If you want to show me that four out of five dentists prefer Trident and that we need to target the fifth one, show me a … Continue reading
What is a CouchApp
Quoting the CouchApp wiki: [CouchApps are] utilities to make standalone CouchDB application development simple. Some interesting links: about authentication: CouchApps and user authentication a tutorial: Hosted Applications a real application using CouchApps: Ajatus CRM
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Tagged app, applications, couch, couchapp, couchapps, couchdb, development, tutorial
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Focus on your active users
Quoting The Difference Between Total Users and Active Users: It is not a problem for a service to have a large group of non-active users if they have a large group of active users. It’s the latter group that you … Continue reading
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Tagged active, application, engagement, focus, Opinion, promotion, users
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