Paxos is a family of protocols for solving consensus in a network of unreliable processors. Consensus is the process of agreeing on one result among a group of participants. This problem becomes difficult when the participants or their communication medium may experience failures.[1]
Please drop the SOAPMy node.js project is coming along well and I am in the process of writing up a couple of detailed blog posts about it, but in the meantime I’ll leave you with this rant about SOAP.
“Virtual method call from constructor” What Could Go Wrong?If you’ve used any sort of static analysis on source code you may have seen a message like “Virtual method call from constructor”. In FxCop/Visual-Studio-Code-Analysis it’s CA2214 “Do not call overridable methods in constructors”.
Metrics - Building ClickatronOne of the core product features of bitly has always been metrics. Unlike tools like google analytics, bitly metrics have always been a way to gather website metrics when you don’t control the website. Want metrics for a book you wrote on Amazon? Use a bitly link.
How To Hack Face-to-Face ConversationI’m a programmer turned sales guy. I started programming BASIC on a TRS-80 when I was seven years old, and for much of my life, embodied all the stereotypical social awkwardness that programmers are known for.
Making our irc bot talkIRC might seem quaint and outdated, but for keeping in touch with a group of friends it beats Twitter, Facebook and Google+ hands down. There’s a bunch of others on those things. With IRC there’s just us … and a robot overlord.
A trip through the Graphics Pipeline 2011To the extent possible under law, has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to.
HTML5Rocks Live, Episode 1In this episode of HTML5Rocks Live, Boris, Eric and Paul join us to show some great new libraries and performance tips. In the first chapter, Paul shows how ...
GUID Guide, part oneWhat is a GUID? The acronym stands for "globally unique identifier"; GUIDs are also called UUIDs, which stands for "universally unique identifier". (It is unclear to me why we need two nigh-identical names for the same thing, but there you have it.
Content Modelling: A Master SkillIn “Tinker, Tailor, Content Strategist,” which runs concurrently in this issue, I asked you about content strategy master skills, which hardly seems fair if I don’t share one of my own favorites.
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.