January 2008
9 posts
My prediction...
As Faceboook falters, next in line is LinkedIn. As the Facebook generation graduates and get jobs, they will be more interested in building professional contacts and saving their embarrassing pictures from last weekends party for their friends.
'Facebook fatigue' kicks in as people tire of... →
Walled gardens have a long history in the online world, dating back to Quantum on the C64. They always have the save effect: rapid build up as people attract their friends then slow deflation as people move on to something else. Now it looks like Facebook is starting to experience the same effect. Social network-like technologies will certainly change the way we communicate in the future, but it...
XML vs JSON
I ran a little experiment today in Ruby, parsing XML and JSON documents that each yield the same Hash structure. Runs per/sec: XML: 2,208 - JSON: 56,506 That’s right, JSON is 20x faster. Each implementation system is different of course, but it makes sense that JSON is probably faster than XML on most systems by some factor because it is simpler. I had never thought about using JSON to...
CouchDb →
Document-based storage written in Erlang (so its distributed), formatting in JSON (which is really fast), and queries in JavaScript. Now officially sponsored by IBM.
Thin - yet another web server →
Event-driven web server for Ruby. A good replacement for Mongrel if you want something really fast.
Merb →
Interesting substitute for Ruby on Rails. Still Ruby goodness, none of the Rails weight. It’s also thread-safe.
Maybe BfaY was a success afterall.
Blog for a Year has been a very interesting journey for me. I was disappointed that we didn’t raise the funds to pay for the winner to blog for a year. Imagine my delight when she told me today that BfaY helped her get a job anyway! An email from AbsolutelyTrue: (Republished with permission)There were so many deserving bloggers, and it’s truly an honor to win. I know you...
Blog For a Year Winner Announced →
The competition is over. Didn’t raise the full amount, but I learned a lot about running a competition like this. Thanks everyone who participated.