Exclusive: How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web | Magazine
A fascinating reminder of the complexity in every Google search.
Why You Might NOT Want To Be Like Gary Vee - by Dumb Little Man
I couldn’t agree more. Our culture is so success and wealth focused for its own sake and not for a higher purpose. Ask yourself, why are you doing it?
Interesting video on neo4j and nosql in general. Neo4j seems like it could be a great stepping stone into nosql. Scales better than sql but a much more full featured data model than key/value stores.
Also, a great bit of realism for the NoSql brigade at the very end.
High Scalability - High Scalability - Paper: No Relation: The Mixed Blessings of Non-Relational Databases
Finally got around to reading this. It only served to remind me how little I really grock the many different nosql options out there.
A Design Framework for Highly Concurrent Systems
The past two systems I have worked on have used this as a base architecture, I highly recommend it.
SOLID: Software That Works | .NET Zone
I’ve been reading more and more on SOLID. This seems to be the best, straight forward rundown of it yet, with great motivational posters to boot.
Why I love everything you hate about Java « Magic Scaling Sprinkles
Thank you for putting so eloquently what I know instinctively but couldn’t put into worlds. I’ve just finished reworking a java system and removed almost all new MyClass calls. Its incredibly powerful.
The Masculine Heart: Where Men Stand in the Culture - Super Bowl Ads 2010
Did anyone else notice how degrading the super bowl ads where?
melophobe | John Brown’s Body + Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad - House of Blues (Boston, MA; Feb. 5, 2010)
What a great show and what a great place to shoot at.
InfoQ: What Really Motivates Workers
Notice where salary (and by extension all monetary compensation) is ranked. Additionally the idea of progress works very nicely with agile/scrum ideals and GTD. Nothing that I didn’t think was obvious here but nice to see Harvard Business Review making it officia
Software Development Has Stalled
I have the same vague suspicion after reading a handful of articles from the 70s/80s recently where it was obvious things were moving fast. Even in the past few years since I’ve been working professionally it seems like there is a large amount of agreement on best practices and they don’t look like they are changing.
