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Broken by Design: MongoDB Fault Tolerance :: Hacking, Distributed

Broken by Design: MongoDB Fault Tolerance :: Hacking, Distributed: "As you're undoubtedly well-aware, there are some very strong geek fashion trends in the valley. I don't mean fashion in the sense of geek haute-couture -- the fashion trends we're talking about here have to do with tech components. You've heard of it before: "here's how we built fubar.com using X, Y and Z." The blogosphere regurgitates this dreck, and people base their adoption strategies on how much noise they have heard about various X's, Y'z and Z's."

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Syndicated 2013-02-07 17:19:00 from sness

Function Painter

Function Painter:

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Syndicated 2013-02-07 17:18:00 from sness

Static constructors, part one | Fabulous Adventures In Coding

Static constructors, part one | Fabulous Adventures In Coding: "Previously on FAIC we saw how easy it was to deadlock a program by trying to do something interesting in a static constructor.1 Static constructors and destructors2 are the two really weird kinds of methods, and you should do as little as possible in them."

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Syndicated 2013-02-07 17:18:00 from sness

A geek with a hat » First impressions of Rails as a Javascripter

A geek with a hat » First impressions of Rails as a Javascripter: "What struck me when I first saw Ruby code was just how readable it is. Even though I was looking at the language for the first time in my life, I could understand what everything is doing. I could follow the code and decide what tests need to be written."

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Syndicated 2013-02-07 17:17:00 from sness

A geek with a hat » First impressions of Rails as a Javascripter

A geek with a hat » First impressions of Rails as a Javascripter: "The project I’m working on just … works. I have no idea where dependencies are coming from, I can’t tell which gem file a function I’m calling is defined in and most of the time I am completely at a loss as to what is actually going on."

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Syndicated 2013-02-07 17:17:00 from sness

Building Scalable, Highly Concurrent & Fault Tolerant Systems - Le...

Building Scalable, Highly Concurrent & Fault Tolerant Systems - Le...:

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Syndicated 2013-02-07 17:17:00 from sness

Not Just AstLinux Stuff: Packets of Death

Not Just AstLinux Stuff: Packets of Death: "Before I go any further I need to give another shout out to an excellent open source piece of software I found. Ostinato turns you into a packet ninja. There’s literally no limit to what you can do with it. Without Ostinato I could have never gotten beyond this point."

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Syndicated 2013-02-07 17:14:00 from sness

matthewp/fs · GitHub

matthewp/fs · GitHub: "Bringing a file system abstraction to the browser. fs is a component that allows you to store data in the (modern) browser using an API similar to that of Node's fs module

Implemented in a cross-browser fashion, using the FileSystem API (for Chrome) or IndexedDB (for Firefox/IE).

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Syndicated 2013-02-07 17:09:00 from sness

HTML5 Audio — The State of Play | HTML5 Doctor

HTML5 Audio — The State of Play | HTML5 Doctor: "Fortunately the audio API provides us with a way to find out whether a certain format is supported by the browser. But first, here’s a quick recap on how we manipulate the audio element via the API."

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Syndicated 2013-02-07 16:51:00 from sness

django-tastypie/docs/resources.rst at master · toastdriven/django-tastypie · GitHub

django-tastypie/docs/resources.rst at master · toastdriven/django-tastypie · GitHub: "URIs are useful because it results in smaller payloads, letting you fetch only the data that is important to you. You can imagine an instance where an object has thousands of related items that you may not be interested in.

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Syndicated 2013-02-07 07:09:00 from sness