In Memoriam / On the Shoulders of Giants
Any passing is an opportunity for reflection, and when an individual of great portent passes this reflection runs deep indeed. My son will not know a world with Steve Jobs in it, but his world will...
View ArticleCould the Bird be the Word?
It’s been quite a year for pundits on all sides of the SQL, NoSQL, NewSQL and now MoreSQL camps. I’m very much a fan of the right tool for the right job approach, and I’ve been beta testing a very...
View ArticleClick – Scale
Instagram. My wife and I just started using it even though my brother in law has been an ardent fan since pretty much their launch. High Scalability has a really good write up on how they’ve approached...
View ArticleBird in Flight
The folks over at NuoDB have launched Beta 5 (http://nuodb.com/blog/2011/12/news/beta-5-preview/) with 100+ improvements including performance upgrades, cloud-friendliness, language driver support,...
View ArticleZen and The Art of Scaling
There’s a nice guest post “Zen and The Art of Scaling” over on High Scalability by Russel Sullivan where he shares 44 lessons learned over the years from developing highly scalable systems – a “black...
View Articleadmins are end-users too
In working with software projects for the web I find that a very important class of end-user is often overlooked: the admins. We often work very hard to make sure the user experience (UX) is great,...
View Articlestories service design
Something has been bubbling amongst my colleagues. Something we’ve all been trying to articulate over many years in one form or another in blogs, posts, tweets, re-tweets, speeches – stories. And once...
View Articleembedded razor views in mvc 4
Here’s a little fun you can have with very little scaffolding that let’s you ship ASP.NET MVC 4 razor views as embedded resources in a shared assembly and allows you to override them as needed. The...
View Articleservice and scale
Mark Cavage has a nice article over at ACM about building a distributed system. This is good reading for all technologists and designers working at scale, even those who aren’t so in touch with actual...
View Articlethe importance of being earnest … with your sitecore ia
The information architecture (IA) of a website is very important when it comes to surfacing content in an an effective and appropriate manner for your users. Once you have a website’s IA, wireframes,...
View ArticleClick – Scale
Instagram. My wife and I just started using it even though my brother in law has been an ardent fan since pretty much their launch. High Scalability has a really good write up on how they’ve approached...
View ArticleBird in Flight
The folks over at NuoDB have launched Beta 5 (http://nuodb.com/blog/2011/12/news/beta-5-preview/) with 100+ improvements including performance upgrades, cloud-friendliness, language driver support,...
View ArticleZen and The Art of Scaling
There’s a nice guest post “Zen and The Art of Scaling” over on High Scalability by Russel Sullivan where he shares 44 lessons learned over the years from developing highly scalable systems – a “black...
View Articleadmins are users too
In working with software projects for the web I find that a very important class of end-user is often overlooked: the admins. We often work very hard to make sure the user experience (UX) is great,...
View Articlestories service design
Something has been bubbling amongst my colleagues. Something we’ve all been trying to articulate over many years in one form or another in blogs, posts, tweets, re-tweets, speeches – stories. And once...
View Articleembedded razor views in mvc 4
Here’s a little fun you can have with very little scaffolding that let’s you ship ASP.NET MVC 4 razor views as embedded resources in a shared assembly and allows you to override them as needed. The...
View Articleservice and scale
Mark Cavage has a nice article over at ACM about building a distributed system. This is good reading for all technologists and designers working at scale, even those who aren’t so in touch with actual...
View Articlethe importance of being earnest … with your sitecore ia
The information architecture (IA) of a website is very important when it comes to surfacing content in an an effective and appropriate manner for your users. Once you have a website’s IA, wireframes,...
View Articlethe ultimate wearable
is your current body. The post the ultimate wearable appeared first on Ian Mariano.
View ArticleThe Value of a Design-Driven Web Development Firm
Design isn’t a product—it’s a process, and this process and culture of user focus and collaboration should permeate the whole organization. Recently at the 2015 Digital Project Managers Summit I had a...
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