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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
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
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
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&
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
