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 picture of 5 dentists, but make one of them stand out. I’ll remember that.
Unless, of course, [...]
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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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 need to focus on. Over time, I’ve learned that many non-active users become active for one [...]
Quoting New source file policy on Vimeo Staff Blog:
Starting August 1st, basic accounts’ original source files will be stored for one week from the upload date, after which they will be removed.
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This new one-week policy applies to all basic accounts’ videos uploaded from this point onwards. For videos that were uploaded before this blog post, [...]
Quoting the twitter status blog post ”Twitter Status – A note about per day following limits.”:
While there are technical reasons behind having some limit on following activites, this per-day limit exists to discourage spamminess. Also, it is unlikely that anyone can actually read tweets from thousands of accounts which makes the mass following activity disingenuous.
What [...]
Testing
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Much has been said about friendfeed’s latest UI redesign and how it enables a real time view of content from across the Web. Is it really real time? I mean, content is pulled periodically from other applications into friendfeed so that it can be displayed to the end user.
This post was triggered in part by [...]
“How to Share a Secret” is the title of paper written in 1979 by Adi Shamir (best known for his work on the RSA algorithm). The paper describes a method for dividing information in smaller pieces so that the knowledge of all but one of the pieces gives absolutely no information about the original information. [...]
Lifestreaming aggregators became popular as the number of different applications where you could participate — either by updating your status or by uploading something — increased. The aggregators are here to relieve you from the burden of going to multiple locations to find out what your friends or contacts are up to.
Services like plaxo, spokeo, [...]
I’ve been thinking about developing a PHP Logger that will talk to your favorite ticketing system. The idea is to capture code and application generated errors and create tickets accordingly.
At a first glance, I could use the Reflection API to get meta-information about the code. Tickets could then be created and assigned to the appropriate [...]