Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg shares her trilogy of ideas for a successful start-up and a fulfilling career. Her thoughts include building an enterprise with scalable vision, building personalized, scalable products, and the ability to scale your own connections and capabilities.
Stanford’s Entrepreneurship Corner: Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook – Spotlight on Scalability.
A study done by Bill Scott with Standford in Fall 2008 steps through the process that Netflix used to improve page performance for its users. An important part of the process is setting up the right measurement tools; something I found really interesting.
PDF: High Performance Web Pages – A Netflix Case Study.
At OpenX we recently completed a large-scale deployment of one of our server farms to Amazon EC2. Here are some lessons learned from that experience
via Agile Testing: Experiences deploying a large-scale infrastructure in Amazon EC2.
If your site is not rendering properly in IE8, you can force IE8 to use the IE7 rendering mode with the following meta tag:
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7">
You also transmit this information in the header of the web page response. One way to do that quickly is via a .htaccess file with the following line:
Header set X-UA-Compatible IE=EmulateIE7
You can read more information about IE8 and IE7 compatibility over on MSDN.
Today marks the beginning of a brand new series that will show you EXACTLY how to get started with PHP. Just as with the “jQuery for Absolute Beginners” series, we’ll start from scratch and slowly work our way up to some more advanced topics.
via In the Woods – Diving into PHP: Video Series.
Before launching any new website, feature, or upgrade, it has to be tested. The worst nightmare of any programmer, designer, or business is to launch a broken website that drives away users and hurts reputations. It will only create more work, more headaches, and lost profits.
via 7 Useful Tools for Web Development Testing.
The script allows you to use Google Calendar as a frontend for cron-like scheduling on your Unix/Linux system. If that system is acting as a home server, you’ve suddenly gained an incredibly powerful administration tool that anyone can use to control and automate their environment. On this page, I talk about the technical aspects of the project, but in this post I talk more about the cool implications when looking at the bigger picture of design and interactive architecture.
via Patrick F. Spear » Projects » gcalcron.
We are on the edge of two potent technological changes: Clouds and Memory Based Architectures. This evolution will rip open a chasm where new players can enter and prosper. Google is the master of disk. You can't beat them at a game they perfected. Disk based databases like SimpleDB and BigTable are complicated beasts, typical last gasp products of any aging technology before a change. The next era is the age of Memory and Cloud which will allow for new players to succeed. The tipping point is soon.
via Are Cloud Based Memory Architectures the Next Big Thing? | High Scalability.
The AWS Toolkit for Eclipse is a plug-in for the Eclipse Java IDE that makes it easier for developers to develop, deploy, and debug Java applications using Amazon Web Services. With the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse, you’ll be able to get started faster and be more productive when building AWS applications.
You can also check out their screencast.
A web grid system designed by Joseph Silvashy and New Gold Leaf that allows designers to use the screen real estate on large monitors and retain great design on smaller ones. The Fluid Grid System combines the principals of the typographic grid and a baseline grid into one resolution independent framework.
via Fluid Grid System.
