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San Francisco was great! I got to take part in a great conference, network with other people facing similar challenges and catch up with some of my old friends in the area.
It’s amazing how many people are doing “startups” in that area. I put startups in quotes though because a startup isn’t anything [...]

I’m currently attending the O’Reilly Conference, Velocity Web Performance and Operations. It’s the first of its kind, focusing on building web applications that scale. My focus for the conference is to build on top of what I already know and dive deeper into performance best practice, database tuning, achieving more with less, launching [...]

Jeff Atwood made an interesting comment on his blog, Coding Horror, about how to take advantage of AJAX to send sort-of heartbeat back to the server to keep the session from expiring. I think this is a great idea. Getting automatically logged out is extremely annoying (unless of course it’s my bank in [...]