Is Verizon’s network better, or is it simply untested?

This article over a TechCrunch is putatively about the iPhone, but the take-away for me is that AT&T’s data traffic has grown 50-fold over the last 3 years:..

Mozilla VP: “mistakes were made”

I love the language of Mozilla VP Mike Shaver’s non-retraction retraction regarding a Microsoft plugin for Firefox: We received confirmation from Microsoft this evening that the Framework Assistant add-on is not a mechanism for exploiting the vulnerabilities detailed in the earlier post, so we’ve removed it from the blocklist...

Word nerdism #1: Make mine a medium

I am a word nerd, I love crosswords and love to wonder how words and expressions come to be...

Think of SSDs as multi-core storage

I’ve written a few times why solid-state hard drives (SSDs) are a sea change, similar to our transition from CRT to LCD a few years ago...

StackOverflow == Facebook * .0001

Apparently, Facebook is running around 30,000 physical servers. That hurts my head. With 300,000,000 users, that translates to around 10,000 users per server...

Solving the n+1 problem in Linq to SQL, using projection

Rick Strahl has a nice solution for mitigating the n+1 problem in Linq to SQL...

A simple way that Apple can improve iPhone battery life and user experience

I dig my iPhone, but when I switched over from my Blackberry, I was very surprised at how many steps it takes to find out about new email...

When Apple aligns with a carrier, act II

Apple is not really a partnering company. They make their own hardware and software — and services like ...

A thought experiment: serial vs parallel

Now that solid-state drives are arriving in the mainstream, I’ve been thinking about the implications of serial vs parallel and how they affect overall perceived performance...

Compile-time checking of views in ASP.Net MVC

I noticed that syntax errors in my views were not being caught during the build process — instead I would find them at run-time when I actually hit the view...