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Colin Sackett | Book design & publishing [http://www.colinsackett.co.uk/].
I recognize patterns; large and small; over short periods, and long. Remember
those SAT questions to find patterns in obscure
Web app scale bottlenecks (software & hardware) have leapfrogged themselves a
few times over the past 15 years, and I just came across a concise view of how
software had to react once hardware/
The applicability of "long-tail" content applies beyond UGC
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User-generated_content], into applications and
programming languages themselves. 37signals [http://37signals.com] has pushed
the industries' thinking around building applications
The modern day version of major product success has become system crashes &
overloads. Mainstream media associates high-demand and success with website
failures. Today's "sold out due to high demand" equivalent is an HTTP
On the drive home from picking up our kids from my parent's house tonight, I
recalled an exercise we went through at AOL a year-and-a-half ago or so. We were
in the midst
