Profit from less. It took 10 years, but the National Post finally turned a profit, to the surprise of analysts who questions ”how the paper had managed to become profitable in the middle of a widespread downturn across the media sector.” The secret? Focusing on profits instead of sales:
Executives from Canwest Global Communications Corp. said Wednesday that for the first time in its 10-year history the National Post newspaper turned an operating profit. … The National Post pulled its print edition out of Manitoba and Saskatchewan last October as part of an effort to focus circulation on such larger markets as Toronto and Vancouver.
As they say, “if a newspaper can turn a profit …” (via Finalfashion)
Carbon-dating your database schema. Funny. Painful. Useful. Bad memories. Dating your database schema by counting null fields and many-many relations.
What Harry Potter is to SQL …I wonder what dating rules we could use with key-value storage systems? Here’s Project Voldemort, a scalable key-value store that does read-time consistency, shamelessly influenced by Amazon Dynamo and brought to you by the good people of LinkedIn under the Apache License.
Permanently cool. There are many Rails plugins that can turn http://example.com/states/4323454 into a http://example.com/states/washington, but none as thorough as FriendlyId, “the ‘Swiss Army bulldozer’ of slugging and permalink plugins for Ruby on Rail”.
Gymkhana, which I guess translates to “burning tires for fun and show”.