http://tumblelog.dhananjaynene.com Interesting gatherings from the web Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:15:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Debasish Ghosh has written an interesting post : Objects as Actors. A very nice post touching upon the frequent debate of what abstraction should be included a piece of software and how should it be modeled. Even though readers and users often express their own views and experiences, it often ... http://tumblelog.dhananjaynene.com/2009/04/objects-as-actors-should-distribution-transparency-be-embedded-into-a-language-design/ Comprehension consistency at last in Python 3.0!. Nice example of how comprehensions in Python 3.0 seem a lot more intuitive. Earlier in Python 2.5 : Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Nov 14 2008, 19:46:32) [GCC 4.3.2] on linux2 Type “help”, “copyright”, “credits” or “license” for more information. >>> >>> dict((n, n*n) for n in range(5)) {0: 0, 1: 1, 2: ... http://tumblelog.dhananjaynene.com/2008/12/comprehension-consistency-in-python-3-0/ Free Public WiFi SSID at WLAN Book.com. I was told this stuff is a virus so I avoided it. Apparently it isn't. However the network SSID does seem to have some viral characteristics. In summary : In reality, this SSID is just one of many viral SSIDs that exist anywhere people are ... http://tumblelog.dhananjaynene.com/2008/12/free-public-wifi-ssid-is-not-virus/ http://tumblelog.dhananjaynene.com/2008/09/any-easier-and-funnier-way-to-explain-sql-injection/ Nice collection of blog posts dealing with architecture. 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know - The Book [97 Things] : Near-Time. http://tumblelog.dhananjaynene.com/2008/09/97-things-every-software-architect-should-know-the-book-97-things-near-time/ When people are looking for documentation are they "really" looking for documentation ? This article argues that what people are really looking for is "answers". So long as you are able to get them, documentation per se may not be the criteria. James Shore: The Documentation Myth. http://tumblelog.dhananjaynene.com/2008/09/is-documentation-more-important-or-answers/ TG Daily - Chrome is a security nightmare, indexes your bank accounts. This is an interesting side effect of security issues arising out of perhaps indexing that actually works "too well". http://tumblelog.dhananjaynene.com/2008/09/chrome-is-a-security-nightmare-indexes-your-bank-accounts/ Inside Chrome: The Secret Project to Crush IE and Remake the Web. Nice story about the happenings behind the scenes leading to google chrome. http://tumblelog.dhananjaynene.com/2008/09/inside-chrome-the-secret-project-to-crush-ie-and-remake-the-web/ How To Demo Your Startup (Part Two). http://tumblelog.dhananjaynene.com/2008/09/how-to-demo-your-startup-part-two/ So as you can see, lean and agile are deeply intertwined in the software world. You can't really talk about them being alternatives, if you are doing agile you are doing lean and vice-versa. Agile was always meant as a very broad concept, a core set of values and principles ... http://tumblelog.dhananjaynene.com/2008/09/agile-or-lean/ Another startup lessons learnt essay. Untitled - Startup Lessons Learned -- Take it with a grain of salt. Summary (for a much more detailed article, follow the link) : You can’t afford to have a religion. Communication Agile development, actually. Distributed Development isn’t such a great idea… Don’t file expensive patents when you are pre-seed. Attention to ... http://tumblelog.dhananjaynene.com/2008/09/startup-lessons-learned-take-it-with-a-grain-of-salt/ As per hacker news .. the 100 most commonly used blog post title words are : google startup web facebook yc new ask why social app business microsoft |2.0| software world iphone video apple idea site user free vc online internet open search network year news mobile like best hacker make ... http://tumblelog.dhananjaynene.com/2008/09/most-commonly-used-blog-post-title-words/ Nice set of points for enhancing your sites credibility. Reproducing the bullet points below, the details are on the link referred to. The Web Credibility Project: Guidelines - Stanford University. Make it easy to verify the accuracy of the information on your site. Show that there's a real organization behind your site. Highlight the ... http://tumblelog.dhananjaynene.com/2008/09/how-to-improve-your-sites-credibility-suggestions-from-the-web-credibility-project-stanford-university/ Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo. Mozilla Labs » Blog Archive » Introducing Ubiquity. Seems v. promising firefox extension .. allows users to do their own mashups from the browser. Seems to have a very geeky interface - keyboard command to launch ubiquity and text commands to be entered using keyboard ... http://tumblelog.dhananjaynene.com/2008/08/introducing-ubiquity/ Nice post listing some of google's experiments in sometimes small and seemingly trivial aspects of their search. Official Google Blog: Search experiments, large and small. Experimentation is a very powerful tool, and we use it very widely to test potential changes to search. At any given time, we run anywhere from 50 ... http://tumblelog.dhananjaynene.com/2008/08/search-experiments-large-and-small/ MF Bliki: CheaperTalentHypothesis. Martin Fowler's commentary on why cheaper talent is more expensive ! Naturally better programmers cost more, either as full-time hires or in contracting. But the interesting question is, despite this, are more expensive programmers actually cheaper? ... If the cost premium for a more productive developer is less than the higher ... http://tumblelog.dhananjaynene.com/2008/08/cheaper-talent-hypothesis/ Bell Labs Kills Fundamental Physics Research | Gadget Lab from Wired.com. Sad .. but probably necessary under the current economic scenario. After six Nobel Prizes, the invention of the transistor, laser and countless contributions to computer science and technology, it is the end of the road for Bell Labs' fundamental physics research ... http://tumblelog.dhananjaynene.com/2008/08/bell-labs-kills-fundamental-physics-research-gadget-lab-from-wiredcom/ The Disco Blog » Blog Archive » Unit testing is doomed when it’s an elephant. Very nice commentary on why it is difficult to take up automated unit testing in many shops (with a slight focus on Java shops) The question remains, however; is unit testing doomed? The answer to this question, ... http://tumblelog.dhananjaynene.com/2008/08/unit-testing-is-doomed-when-it%e2%80%99s-an-elephant/ SUP (Simple Update Protocol) is a simple and compact "ping feed" that web services can produce in order to alert the consumers of their feeds when a feed has been updated. This reduces update latency and improves efficiency by eliminating the need for frequent polling. FriendFeed Blog: Simple Update Protocol: Fetch ... http://tumblelog.dhananjaynene.com/2008/08/simple-update-protocol-fetch-updates-from-feeds-faster/ Enterprise Java Community: Building a Scalable Enterprise Applications Using Asynchronous IO and SEDA Model. A nice article providing an overview of SEDA architecture and showing an example of building an application using the same along with tomcat and mule, and benchmark results thereof http://tumblelog.dhananjaynene.com/2008/08/enterprise-java-community-building-a-scalable-enterprise-applications-using-asynchronous-io-and-seda-model/