There are plenty of blog posts in the world.
In the first 5 hours, with just a handful of intrepid pre-release users QA testers, we added 100,000 assets to the system.
That’s quite a bit for the first few hours, but we’re still small potatoes: Paul Querna commented that Bloglines gets 5-7M new posts every [...]
Persistent connections are great. They save a lot of packets on the network, and they save lots of latency.
Without persistent connections, you have to do a set up and tear down with every request. Persistent connections means that you can open a connection ONCE, then proceed to make multiple requests–as many as you like. [...]
Stop complaining. No one else gets it right, either.
Versioning posts is hard. Google doesn’t do it. Bloglines beta used to partially do it (but they turned it off). But I want Assetbar to fully support versioning. It can make you want to hit your head against the wall.
So what is this “versioning” [...]
To start out the new year, at 9:00 AM, everybody in my Gmail contacts was treated to a nice spam from www.fly6688.com aka forestdj168.com. Sorry about that. You’re not the 1,000,000th visitor to the site, and no, you didn’t punch the monkey.
I couldn’t do any investigation because we were just about to get on a plane.
But last [...]
