A random collection of thoughts from an easily bored developer
It seems that the recent capacity and load management problems being experienced by several social networking sites are self perpetuating. Regardless of the application, users always have preconceived expectations with regards to performance, usability and availability. If those expectations aren’t met, they like to let people know about it. Depending on the environment and target [...]
I’ve been using the Firefox 3.0 beta since I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04, as it came as a standard package, but until now I had no idea that version 3.0 had a significantly different UI from 2.0. In fact, I only found out when I saw recent Flickr posts showing a Firefox comparison chart with [...]
I was recently interviewed by Sheila from Sheila’s Wanderings. Typically for me, I ended up with a longer answer to the “Any last words?” section than any of the others. The tone of the questions really got me thinking about my first year of University, when I was amongst 200 other students looking forward to [...]
Until recently I honestly didn’t “get” the Twitter phenomenon. I figured that it would be chock full of people posting about what they had for lunch, or other such inane comments. There are quite a few excellent articles that go some way to refute this by pointing out the power of choosing who to follow, but [...]