The latest Amazon S3 blackout made me think what could be done to try to solve this problem, when your application depends on S3 or any other cloud service.
Does this mean that you should all stop using cloud services and go back to your own data center? No way! There are better and more reasonable […]
Do you enjoy wine? You’re gonna love Adegga, the place where you can discover new wines by looking at other people’s tastings and findings.
Adegga just came out of a closed beta and right now anyone can start using it as long as they get invited by another user. That’s right, during an initial phase, registration […]
The guys at Brightkite came up with the idea of capturing user-generated content and associating it to a particular place where the user is located. Quoting their blog post:
Placestreaming, as in the stream of content originating from a specific place. We think this really captures what Brightkite is all about. We enable location based conversations. […]
Do you have to deal with large projects on a daily basis and feel that you’re always behind schedule? Have you tried all the available frameworks and quit because they don’t really fit into your development methodology? Are you a Web designer tired of writing PHP code all day long?
PHP and Smarty on Large-Scale Web […]
The guys at backnetwork did a great job by providing a full social network for the London Hackday 2007 event. You are encouraged to participate by creating your own profile and linking to friends and acquaintances that you might have.
They also opened their application to outside users by providing a very simple API where you […]
Software complexity is increasing as time goes by and is now becoming a nightmare for every developer. To begin with, let’s find out what complexity is:
A complex system is a system for which it is difficult, if not impossible to restrict its description to a limited number of parameters or characterising variables without losing its […]
Javascript Dataflow Architecture (JDA) is a project from Maya that attempts to solve the issues associated to large-scale reuse and remix on the Web through the use of black box composition. Quoting their Website:
Remember back in the mid 90s when we could tinker with the Web by just copying and pasting a bunch of HTML? […]