John Adams’ views on emerging technologies, software engineering, and various hacks
I have a couple of interesting tools for you to use to improve links and tags with when composing your next blog post!
The first one is from Tagaroo, which uses the (Reuters) Calais API to determine tags that match the content of your posting. Like Akismet, you need to sign up to use the Calais [...]
Brady just posted links to numerous presentations from Web 2.0 Expo Europe. The LolCats have taken over presentations at most major web conferences these days. Nearly every presentation I looked at had a LOLCat on one of their slides.
Those that were lacking in an actual LOLCat slide featured lots of LOLSpeak. I know we’re discussing [...]
Here I am at work, at Twitter during the 1st Presidential debates, making sure things are running and keeping track of our metrics. Twitter and Current.tv worked together to provide a live election site and placement of user generated tweets on live video of the debate. Our team did wonderfully and Twitter stayed up through [...]
I’ve been very busy lately dealing with Twitter, but I’ve made some time to stop by SFBeta and earlier this evening, the OpenDNS party at fluid. Both were decent; OpenDNS was more of a mixer, and SFBeta, chock full o’ demos.
SFBeta was what you’d expect - Lots of industry folk, barely any food left [...]
Velocity (day one) went amazingly well. Again, let me thank Jesse for dinner and the chance to speak there.
Part way through the day I got caught up in a bit of a media circus, but I survived. I finally got to meet Steve Gillmor, even if he had a camera shoved in my face.
(Oh [...]
I made it to Velocity around lunch as I was dealing with work business, but so far it’s been pretty decent. Thanks to Jesse Robbins for the invite to speak this evening at Ignite, and for access to the conference.
The day opened (for me, at least) with the Measuring Performance presentation. The general takeaway [...]
I’d like to share with you some takeaways from the Web 2.0 conference, mainly in the realm of scaling and web development.
John Allspaw’s Capacity Planning for Web Operations:
http://www.slideshare.net/jallspaw/capacity-planning-for-web-operations-web20-expo-2008
Why startups need automated infrastructures
This talk was pretty awseome. It dealt with automating operations work.
http://www.slideshare.net/adamhjk/why-startups-need-automated-infrastructures
Scalable Web Architectures: Common Patterns and Approaches (2007)
http://www.slideshare.net/techdude/scalable-web-architectures-common-patterns-and-approaches/
I’m also adding my friend’s talk (Artur [...]
Around here at the PornJob, we do a fair amount of research into building very large, very scalable systems to deliver lots of media content to thousands of users. We’re always trying to solve the same problem, over and over, though:
How do we store hundreds of thousands of movies in a redundant, distributed fashion across [...]
I’ll be speaking at Ignite SF, at DNA Lounge on April 22nd as part of the Web 2.0 Expo.
You’ll need a badge to attend, and I suggest you register as soon as possible!
Note that you will have to drop by Moscone Center and pick up your badge during the day before coming to DNA.
Badge signup [...]
Courtesy of juhani, here’s a listing of parties during next week’s Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco.
Original posting from http://www.xihalife.com/b/juhani/1540
I’m attending the Mashable/Chi.mp party, but that’s it so far.
List is duplicated below…