Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Facebook Seattle Engineering Road Show: Mike Shroepfer on Engineering at Scale at Facebook - http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog...
... "They use PHP on the front-end because it is easy to learn, easy to develop in and it is very productive. However there are downsides such as the fact that their benchmarks have shown that it is ten times slower than if they used more traditional web programming technologies like C# or Java. They have done a lot of work to optimize PHP and will continue to invest in optimizations instead of switching the language they use on their front ends."......
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Leo Laporte explicando la democratización de los medios, la r/evolución que está sucediendo y su visión de como será en el futuro. Video (40 mins) muy interesante - http://mashable.com/2009...
Muy interente lectura para ver como un sitio apuntado a un nicho de mercado muy particular logra hacer el pase a un sitio de alta demanda y un buen detalle de la arquitectura que usa.
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el resto del post quedó en #friendfeed y terminaba con ..larga vida a RoR !!! ... la verdad que no me gustó mucho, fue volver a remar con un framework pesado y con ciclos de prueba y test larguísimos comparado con RoR.... que podeś extrañar ? .. quizás de Java como lenguaje.. pero como ambiente para aplicaciones web.... no extraño naaaadaaa ;)
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Interesante post de como utilizar un sistema parecido al de Digg para que los alumnos se clasifiquen entre ellos...... también muy interesante muchos de los comentarios que enriquesen.
- Nelson Fernandez
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... but is ironic that if you tray to access the Free book on Scribd (http://www.scribd.com/doc...) outside USA a message say " Sorry, this content is geographically restricted" ... perhaps the publishers didn't read the book ??
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Currying is a concept in Functional Programming that’s enabled by Higher-order functions. It’s best described as: the ability to take a function that accepts n parameters and turns it into a composition of n functions each of them take 1 parameter.
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Gearman provides a generic application framework to farm out work to other machines or processes that are better suited to do the work
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The MashSSL Protocol can be used in virtually any situation where two web applications are communicating via a user's browser, and can protect the applications even in the presence of man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks or malicious users. We describe here the solutions we have implemented to date, namely integrating MashSSL with cross domain XHR, OpenAJAX and OAuth. We also describe a situation where MashSSL is used directly between two applications (server to server).
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