TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Marco Arment posted this graph today, which shows some relative sales numbers of what he calls "obscure game consoles" (which presumably just means those outside the Microsoft/Sony/Sega/Nintendo dominion) right up against tablets which aren't the iPad.…
12 August 2011TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
OS X Lion has made signing PDFs easier than ever before. It's been possible to scan in your handwritten signature and sign documents in earlier versions of Mac OS X, but it was a complex process and one most people probably never trifled with. More often…
11 August 2011TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Why pay Apple $69.99 when you can build your own Lion install drive for the App Store purchase price of $29.99 -- plus the cost of an inexpensive thumb drive. Here's how to create a full install on a drive, not just the recovery disk that we recently…
11 August 2011Planet PHPUnit
10 August 2011Planet Mozilla
Today we have a guest post by James Long (@jlongster). James is the tech lead for mozilla.com on the Web Development team. James is passionate about interactive graphics on the open web. Today he explains how you can create 3D objects using CSS without…
8 August 2011MySQL Performance Blog
A while ago I started a series of posts showing benchmark results on Amazon EC2 servers with RAID’ed EBS volumes and MySQL, versus RDS machines. For reasons that won’t add anything to this discussion, I got sidetracked, and then time passed, and I no…
4 August 2011inessential.com
Here are a few things I’ve been doing lately to write better code, and less code, with less effort. SYNTHESIZED INSTANCE VARIABLES Adding a property is costly when you have to declare it three times: once as an instance variable, once (or twice) as a…
4 August 2011Planet Mozilla
3 August 2011Planet Mozilla
The more drums we have in our kit, the more jobs we can handle.
3 August 2011Slashdot
Lucas123 writes "eBay's QA division was facing mounting performance issues related to its exponential growth of virtual servers, so instead of purchasing more 15k rpm Fibre Channel drives, the company began migrating over to a pure SSD environment. eBay…
3 August 2011