Simple is fast There’s something to be said for dead simple technologies. And in that I include dead simple protocols and dead simple file formats. Like the Redis append log. Here’s how you use it to load 45 million records in 2 minutes.
Watch your speed Professor, a MongoDB profile viewer.
Bound VisualEvent will show which on-page elements have event handlers associated with them, and what those event handlers do. Mighty useful if you’re client-side code is event-heavy (free tip: events are coupling, less is more).
Readme Reacco looks interesting: a dead simple documentation generator that lets you document your project using Markdown.
Pipe dreams Things the W3C should stop doing:
The SemWeb folks use the term “web” in a hopeful, forward looking way that nobody else does … standards bodies aren’t venues for creating the future after all, only for cleaning it up in response to the messy, explosive process of market-driven evolution. …
As for XML, well, it won the enterprise and lost the web. That’s still success, but it’s not the web.
Rinse, repeat for RDF, Web Services, and Java.
Pure gold This site is dedicated to nothing but coffee brew methods. Also, the Chris King tamper.
QotD Alan Cooper:
You simply can’t create likable software if you are a dysfunctional company.