All Things Distributed
APRIL 29, 2008
The laptop that appeared on the cover of business week as part of the story “Building the Perfect Laptop” is the Thinkpad X300. It arrived at my doorstep this afternoon. It is everything it promised to be and more; superlight, rugged, SSD, full ports, wifi, lan & cell networks, dvd, replaceable batteries and 13.
The Agile Manager
APRIL 28, 2008
In the wake of a credit market seizure, illiquid investments, $245 billion of write-downs and losses 1 , collapsing funds and financial institutions, and no indication as to where it’s going to end, US capital markets are facing significant changes in how they're regulated. Hedge funds are a flashpoint. There are about 8,000 funds managing some $2 trillion of assets, 2 and there is no way of knowing whether or not there’s a large write-down looming somewhere among them.
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Tim Kadlec
APRIL 28, 2008
In our first look at the new features of Javascript 2.0, we will focus on the new typing system. We are just going to highlight some of the major changes and potential uses. For a more detailed look, take a look at the ECMAScript 4.0 Language Overview. Traditionally, Javascript is a loosely-typed language, meaning that variables are declared without a type.
All Things Distributed
APRIL 14, 2008
My opening slide for tomorrow's keynote at the MySQL Conference has this feel of speed and excitement to it that represents the current progress towards Cloud Computing. Persistent Storage for EC2 will be an important part of the presentation, but I'll mainly focus on general non-functional lesson from building large-scale services.
All Things Distributed
APRIL 13, 2008
I would like to introduce to you the newest feature of Amazon EC2: Persistent local storage. This has been very high on the request list of EC2 customers and I believe that combined with the Availability Zones and Elastic IP Address features released earlier this month this makes EC2 the ideal environment for building highly scalable and reliable applications.
Tim Kadlec
APRIL 24, 2008
At the heart of CSS, of course, are its selectors. They are after all what allow us to apply styles to a given element in our (X)HTML. Sometimes though, there is a desire to apply a style based on an elements state. That is where pseudo-classes come into play. You’ve probably all used them at some point…but there may be more there than you realize.
Tim Kadlec
APRIL 22, 2008
There has been no shortage of debate over Javascript 2.0, based on ECMAScript 4.0. Some people are extremely excited about some of the new features being discussed, and some feel that Javascript 2.0 is shaping up to look a bit too much like Java or even C++ for their tastes. Whether you like the new features being proposed, think they’re silly and unnecessary, or have no idea what the heck I am talking about, I think it’s important to have a firm grasp on some of the changes being pr
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Tim Kadlec
APRIL 13, 2008
Being wrong is a good thing. I know…I know…we’ve been told our entire lives that it’s better to be right than wrong. I think, though, that in the design/development industry, it’s good to be wrong sometimes. Always being right means we’re not challenging ourselves enough. It means that either we’ve become comfortable and content with where we are at with our skills, or that there is no one challenging us to improve those skills.
Tim Kadlec
APRIL 8, 2008
NOTE: This is the first book review to be featured here. The idea is that I will frequently review web-related books to hopefully help give you an idea of whether or not a book is right for you. The books reviewed will all be somehow related to web development or design so you will never hear me tell you how much I enjoyed Stephen King’s Dark Tower series or Napoleon’s Pyramids by William Dietrich… except for right now of course.
Tim Kadlec
APRIL 2, 2008
Sometimes code turns ugly. We add quick fixes or enhancements and our code starts to become a big tangle of functions that aren’t laid out in any sort of organized fashion. Over time, our code becomes bloated, difficult to maintain and what should be simple little fixes can quickly turn into long walks through messy syntax. One way of combating this is by implementing the 5S System.
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