Good Post on Product Management
Ken Norton, VP Products at Jotspot, posted this good wrap-up on product management last week (you can tell I’m not exactly keeping up with my RSS subscriptions these days). His… Read more »
Category: building online products
Between Fluid and Fixed: Elastic Design
Roger Johansson takes a step further the debate that wouldn’t die between proponents of fluid and fixed web designs. His in-between approach is demonstrated by his own recent "elastic" redesign…. Read more »
Why Isn’t the Obvious Making It Faster Into Development Platforms?
I’m in one of those periods when I pretend to be a web developer. Low productivity but great fun, and maybe with another few years I might become half good… Read more »
Mr. Moore in the Datacenter
Ryan McIntyre: "Given five or six performance doublings since 1995 courtesy of improvements in clock speed, bus speed, architecture changes from 32 to 64 bit, additional cache memory and faster… Read more »
What Breed of Developers to Build RIAs?
David Temkin: "Another difference between ISVs and Web sites is in the type of developer they employ and the assumptions those developers bring to the table. Rarely do developers at… Read more »
State of the Software Development Management Tool Market
As recently as 18 months ago it seemed there wasn’t much to handle software product development except either bug databases, generic wikis and intranet platforms, or maybe expensive and (for… Read more »
Inside LiveJournal’s Backend
Here’s data sampled from this PDF about Livejournal presented by the Danga team (Lisa and Brad): 100+ servers 5+ million accounts, about half active 50M+ dynamic page views/day The document… Read more »
The Dangers of Redesigning a Web Application
Drew McLellan writes about the downside of incremental upgrades to web applications: "Do everything you can, no matter how sound your reasoning, to group process and interface changes together into… Read more »
The More It Scales… The More It Needs To
Even with all the help Moore’s Law provides, it seems there’s a never-ending need for more web scalability, which probably reflects that companies no longer want to just through more… Read more »
Allmusic’s redesign should be public soon with lots of goodies for music lovers
The Allmusic beta preview I’ve seen looks nice, though it felt a bit sluggish (the dll-based architecture and long-winded URLs are still there) and there are some bugs left, so… Read more »