Danger in Design: Why bother with Architecture?

blogs.lessthandot.com — Creativity is a wonderful thing. It’s also something different for each of us, which is why sometimes our perspectives on the world can produce conflicting ideas on what is the right way and the wrong way to do things. This is a very common facet of the IT world, in particular making computer software, solutions and services. read more...

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Scale Cheaply - Sharding

codebetter.com — There are a lot of expensive ways to scale your database – all of which are highly touted by the big three database vendors because, well, they want to sell you all types of really expensive stuff. Despite what an “engagement consultant” might tell you though, most of the high-traffic websites on the web (google, digg, facebook) rely on far cheaper and better strategies: the core of which is called sharding. read more...

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The 5 types of poor software architects

buunguyen.net — The types of software architects you never want to meet in your career read more...

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How to get Cross Browser Compatibility Every Time

published 17 days, 6 hours ago, submitted by rimsystems 17 days, 10 hours ago

anthonyshort.com.au — Cross-browser compatibility is one of the most time consuming tasks for any web designer. We’ve seen many different articles over the net describing common problems and fixes. I’ve collated all the information I could find to create some coding conventions for ensuring that your site will work first time in every browser. There are some things you should consider for Safari and Firefox also, and IE isn’t always the culprit for your CSS woes. read more...

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Using Classes To Fight CSS Class Explosion

published 17 days, 9 hours ago, submitted by rimsystems 17 days, 20 hours ago

weblogs.asp.net — You might think that really stylable HTML needs classes all over the place. That's not true, thanks to descendant selectors, which let you target elements inside a parent element. read more...

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Top 100 Best Software Engineering Books, Ever

published 16 days, 12 hours ago, submitted by powerrush 25 days, 4 hours ago

noop.nl — In this post I proudly present the Top 100 of Best Software Engineering Books, Ever. I have created this list using four different criteria: 1) number of Amazon reviews, 2) average Amazon rating, 3) number of Google hits and 4) Jolt awards. read more...

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Speed up your Ajax apps with Google’s infrastructure

published 1 month, 8 days ago, submitted by gt1329a 1 month, 9 days ago

ajaxian.com — Use Google's CDN to improve performance in serving up Prototype, Script.aculo.us, jQuery, Dojo, and MooTools on public facing sites. read more...

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The future of .NET, Visual Studio and more

published 1 month, 10 days ago, submitted by Jemm 1 month, 10 days ago

blog.jemm.net — The career pages of Microsoft give hints what the future holds for us developers. This post picks out the interesting little details about future versions of Visual Studio, .NET Framework, SharePoint, SQL Server etc and analyzes a bit what they could mean. read more...

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