Jeremy Wright posted an entry the other day titled, “Web 2.0 Companies Need To Scale” where he talked about how infrastructure scalability is sometimes not written into the plans of new “web 2.0” companies and I agree. He then continues to talk about how executives at companies want 3 or 5 9’s of uptime (99.999% uptime) but aren’t willing, or aren’t aware of, the massive cost at each step of the way. I thought his article definitely needed to be written, and kudos goes out to Jeremy for having the foresight and cojones to actually write it! Oddly though, that article has been under fire for a day or so now and I think some of what Jeremy is saying has been misinterpreted.
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Lean XHTML and Precise CSS
Paul often tells me the CSS I write tends to look like complicated C code, and for the most part, I’d agree. The stylesheets I usually produce rely almost exclusively on descendant selectors which let me pinpoint <div>‘s, headings, and other tags in a very precise manner for styling. In this entry I’ll talk about my theories behind XHTML and CSS code, practices I feel are better than others, and my thoughts on image replacement.
The Flock Movie: Movies 2.0
OMFG there’s a new movie coming out called “The Flock” and it’s totally going to be Movies 2.0. Forget everything you know about Movies 1.0, 2.0 is the next logical step and it’s going to be amazing. It will do everything you want, everything you need, and lots of stuff you didn’t realize you wanted or needed. W00t!!!!
Crippling Firefox Bug On Mac OS X
As I’m sure you all know, Firefox v1.5 has been officially released and is available for download. Got a G5 processor? Check out this page to download a G5-optimized version of the Fox that is a bit faster. You would think all is gravy in Mozilla-land, but that is definitely not the case.
Joyent Acquires TextDrive
Big news (to me at least) in the industry today — our friends at TextDrive were just acquired by my favorite startup, Joyent. Joyent has some really cool web-based collaborative software that currently runs on an all-in-one device you pop into your company’s network infrastructure. Now that Joyent acquired TextDrive, a web hosting company, I’m sure this will accelerate the hosted versions of their wonderful collaborative apps. This also means that Dean Allen and John Gruber are joining forces, which means that some really hot shit is probably afoot.
Lots of congrats to everyone involved, I can’t wait to see where this leads.
Thanks for the tip, Niall!