Real World Web: Performance & Scalability
Awesome (and very long) slideshow on all sorts of scalability and performance techniques for massive websites/services.
Posts from September 2009
WordCamp Philippines in 2 weeks
The weekend following WordCamp Los Angeles, I will also be speaking at WordCamp Philippines! This event is a one-day one, being held in Manila on September 19. I’ve never been to Manila so I’m really looking forward to it (although I’m definitely not looking forward to the long flight and jetlag).
I’ll be giving my talk called “Meet the Family”, which is an introduction to some of the other WordPress-related projects going on which you may not have heard about. I will have just given it (for the first time) the weekend before at WordCamp LA, so hopefully I’ll be able to improve it based on feedback from that event!
Voice Control on the iPhone 3GS is the first truly useful/successful implementation I've ever used.
Burrito Friday, here I come.
Jamming some music and enjoying a beer at the office while knocking out some support tickets! What are you up to?
OH: "one person's value is another person's iFart app" (@MarkJaquith)
Petabytes on a budget
“How to build cheap cloud storage”. Amazing details of a backup company that custom-builds their own storage “pods” to store massive amounts of data relatively cheaply.
Is it just me, or has there been a recent spike in usage on TripIt.com? About time, TripIt rulz 🙂
Baseline
“Built with typographic standards in mind, Baseline makes it easy to develop a website with a pleasing grid and good typography. Baseline starts with several files to reset the browser’s default behavior, build a basic typographic layout — including style for HTML forms and new HTML 5 elements — and build a simple grid system. Baseline was born to be a quick way to prototype a website and grew up to become a full typographic framework for the web using “real” baseline grid as it’s foundation.”
RT @wordcampla: The official WordCamp LA Schedule http://awe.sm/1J1b [yikes I'm first up after intros!]