To connect you to information in real time, it’s important for Twitter to be fast. That’s why we’ve been reviewing our entire technology stack to optimize for speed.
URL DesignYou should take time to design your URL structure. If there’s one thing I hope you remember after reading this article it’s to take time to design your URL structure. Don’t leave it up to your framework. Don’t leave it up to chance. Think about it and craft an experience.
A Guide to Designing Cool URLsURLs are an often overlooked part of web design, yet in many ways they may be the most important aspect of your website. Webmonkey readers are no doubt familiar with the basics of good URL design — URLs should be readable and, most importantly, cool URLs never change.
Gawker Learns the Hard Way Why 'Hash-Bang' URLs are EvilURLs are an often overlooked part of web design, yet in many ways they may be the most important aspect of your website as Gawker’s family of sites recently discovered.
ThreadWhat is a Java thread? Java thread is a task which can run simultaneously with other tasks. It is a piece of code which can run independently and parallel with other parts of the program. Good example of parallel running tasks are two clocks. Each clock has its own time, and it runs continuously.
Twitter Declares Everything Old New AgainTwitter is optimizing its web interface for speed, ditching several of the supposedly cutting-edge changes it made with the “new Twitter” revamp from 2010.
Macintosh Stories : 000 Lines Of Coden early 1982, the Lisa software team was trying to buckle down for the big push to ship the software within the next six months.
OverloadingJust as a reminder, overloading is what happens when you have two methods with the same name but different signatures. At compile time, the compiler works out which one it's going to call, based on the compile time types of the arguments and the target of the method call.
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20 lines of code that will beat A/B testing every timeZwibbler is a drop-in solution that lets users draw on your web site. A/B testing is used far too often, for something that performs so badly. It is defective by design: Segment users into two groups. Show the A group the old, tried and true stuff.
This Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.
This list is compiled from my Pocket list.