No matter how many books I read, the Internet is still my primary source of technical information.
Time is my most precious resource.
Wasted time is something I can never recover.

 

It’s frustrating to Google for technical content and to spend time reading pages of information that seems to… Read more...

The amount of time it took to figure out what I wanted my new blog to look like was astounding. Settling on WordPress as the blogging platform was easy. It was the next step where I found myself knee-deep in the weeds. Read more...

This is the first article in a three-part series inspired by something I read in Scalability Rules: 50 Principals For Scaling Web Sites by Martin Abbott and Michael Fisher Read more...

  • Posted by bbell at 12:00 am

gems

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.
-- C. P. Snow, New York Times, 15 March 1971

You can't control what you can't measure.
-- Tom DeMarco, Controlling Software Projects: Management, Measurement, and Estimates, 1982.

Design for 20x capacity. Implement for 3x capacity. Deploy for ~1.5x capacity.
-- Martin L. Abbott & Michael T. Fisher, Scalability Rules: 50 Principals For Scaling Web Sites, 2011

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