Martin Fowler's BlikiA cross between a blog and wiki of my partly-formed ideas on software developmentSegmentationByFreshness- June 24, 2008 One of the biggest issues with media websites is dealing with high amounts of traffic. Media is all about getting eyeballs, but if you get too many hits at once, slow performance can cause problems and damage your reputation. This problem is exacerbated by the bursty nature of this web traffic. You can be cruising along at a manageable rate, then get hit with a big news story which causes a big spike. One of our clients have seen spikes of two orders of magnitude in a matter of a couple..http://martinfowler.com/bliki/SegmentationByFreshness.html Refactoring HTML is published- June 12, 2008 Updated web site: Elliotte Rusty Harold has published a book in my series on refactoring HTML. It provides the steps in which you can safely turn messy HTML into clean HTML following modern standards.http://martinfowler.com/books.html#refactoringHtml SyntacticNoise- June 9, 2008 A common phrase that's bandied about when talking about DomainSpecificLanguages (or indeed any computer language) is that of noisy syntax. People may say that Ruby is less noisy than Java, or that external DSLs are less noisy than internal DSLs. By Syntactic Noise, what people mean is extraneous characters that aren't part of what we really need to say, but are there to satisfy the language definition. Noise characters are bad because they obscure the meaning of our program, forcing us to...http://martinfowler.com/bliki/SyntacticNoise.html |