al_james

Considering dyn.com started interrupting Everydns' users services two days earlier than they said they wound (in their own instructions), I have moved to alternative DNS providers, and I really hope many other users did too.

Define bigger? More nodes yes, but less cores, RAM and disk space.

http://crossbrowsertesting.com/ is an alternative that has proven very good and cost effective for me.

This does appear to be cheaper though. The local testing thing may be cool. Not sure how that will work.

Wow, a homepage with some bullet points. Really detailed! Where is the API doc?

This is sickening.

Excellent updates. However disappointed that the improvements to aggregation previously mentioned for 2.0 did not seem to make the cut.

Better because it allows you to simply share your location with your friends without all the rubbish foursquare adds. I know the places I want to go and I am not interested in earning a 'badge' to go there. I just want to let my friends know where I am!

Build them using a syntax builder framework, but it is possible to pass raw SQL strings in in exceptional circumstances. Obviously, the developer needs to be totally aware of the risks of this. Not ideal, but needed to solve a couple of problems.

Yes, exactly, the meaning of 'safe string' depends on its context.

I personally believe that all code that is sensitive to escaping issues, should be escaped on output (or storage / sending to the database / whatever) by default unless you explicitly opt it out.

In our framework, we maintain 'already escaped' strings as a separate class, forcing the developer to acknowledge this fact. The HTML output layer escapes all strings unless they are instances of this safe class. Similarly for the SQL layer, all code gets quoted unless it was explicitly marked as 'safe'.

"Pretty difficult to read IP Address lookup" you mean.

Interestingly (but inevitably) as a java developer who first learned Android and then moved to iOS, the sticking points he mentions are exactly the same ones I found, but the other way around.

I think Eclipse makes sense if you think like a java coder, Xcode not so much, and Objective-C will fry your mind...

That said, Eclipse and the Android SDK is a pain to install even if you are a java wizard.

I think this may be the Hindenburg moment for services like this built purely on trust. Trust alone is a naive defence that only works when your user base is small and well aligned with your core concepts. In many ways its the coming of age of the concept when it starts appealing to crooks. Mandatory insurance and more strict user verification is the only way this kind of service will survive.

Interesting. Does the user need to be logged in to G+ and a friend of the person you are requesting the feed for? Otherwise its a bit of a privacy bug!

Edit: Reading it again, it clearly states public posts only.

>direct string concatenation is 2X faster than using "implode"

That depends on how many strings you are concatenating. The beauty of implode is that you can build an HTML snippet and implode it all at the end before output.

This article smacks of being written by someone who came to javscript from the design world, as opposed to coming to javascript as a programmer.

Yes you would. Right, thats by sunday afternoon project taken care of, a transparent write-through HTTP cache using web SQL in javascript. Awesome.

I guess you could store images as base64 encoded text in the Web SQL database, then create the images using the data: protocol. However, not sure you could fit many images in as the file size would be higher.

I am very cautious of Thrift's custom network stack.

We have a java backend service that gets thousands of requests per second per node and where latency is of upmost importance. We tested thrift for communication between the backend service and the front end web code, however we saw an increase in failed requests and latency compared to a server written using netty.

For us, using netty and Protocol Buffers works much better, but maybe we were using Thrift wrongly.

This EC2 outage only affects on single AWS region. This is exactly why AWS provides multiple regions and availability zones. The sites on that page should have taken advantage of these features. Don't put all your eggs in one basket (cloud).

> Planar

Thanks.

Sorry, I was talking more about 3D games, in particular those that became popular around the time Doom came out (1993) which is the same year the CD32 was released.

The Amiga was great for 3D production graphics. Software such as Lightwave and Imagine 3D punched way above its weight (and cost) for a while.

Although I used to be a huge Amiga fan, I think that Amigas of the time lagged behind other systems for gaming. PC's having chunky display formats (as opposed to plainer (planer?) on the Amiga) meant that PC's could do far more 3D graphics than a equivalently powered Amiga, and Amigas were often underpowered anyway. The Amiga kicked ass at 2D games, but could not hack it in 3D.

At the end of the day, had the Amiga been a viable business, $10M in patent fines would not have killed them off.

This looks very similar to Scala. Why reinvent the wheel Red Hat?

I don't think its enough of a discount to be honest. I would not even consider it for $25. $50 maybe. I would have thought amazon could get $50 / user for these ads over the lifetime of the device.

Well, you have to admit that the perceived option (c) "sue some people to make them pay you more for doing the same" would look appealing.... If short-sighted.

...in particular people from industries that were once more profitable than they are currently. There is nothing like decreasing revenues and companies going to the wall to make people get greedy.

Not if your HUGE

This looks great. I wonder if its usable for real-time (low latency) queries? Looks a bit batch oriented to me.

Also, is this open source? Can I download and play?

Wow. Is it me, or do those 'monster characters' on the landing page so really, really amateurish?

>Treat it like an iPhone app. plenty of folks waiting to click Install.

In the App Store maybe, but not many people are waiting to pay for web apps.