Is Google building an anti-spam empire?, or, size matters
Google acquired reCAPTCHA today, a company that provides a simple means of adding a spam-limiting mechanism to your site...
The dullest blog
I navigated on my computer to the web site called “The dullest blog in the world”...
Your bottleneck is you, or, why I’ve stopped worrying about performance
Provocative headline, no? Let me explain. Like Jeff Atwood, I consider end-user performance to be a feature...
What the heck is going on with Intel’s next-generation SSDs?
Intel first announced its second generation consumer solid-state drives on July 21. There were plenty of positive reviews at the time, and the price drop combined with better performance made me ready to take the plunge...
Quickie geek quiz #4
For fabulous prizes, or perhaps a hearty attaboy, the question is: People are throwing things at you and yelling “horn high yo”...
Deploying an ASP.net MVC project
So, I was looking around for a simple way to emulate the “Publish” function of Visual Studio for my first ASP...
Scale means reversing your thinking on the database
There are only a small number of sites in the world that require truly tremendous scale...
The “var” thing
I’ve come to really enjoy using the “var” keyword in C#. Although it’s been written about many times, I want to clarify what it is...
What’s the word…?
Oh right…bollocks. This report seems to be circulating that “Braidwood”, Intel’s inexpensive flash-memory-disk-cache-helper-outer, will somehow negate demand for full-blown SSDs (solid-state drives)...
Why I heart jQuery
I am one of the many people who have fallen in love with jQuery over the past year or two...