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My Thoughts on Node.js vs. G-Wan Server

 This post on the performance of Node.js vs. G-Wan caught my attention: What makes something "notable"? These are some of the points: Node.js is...

0 replies - 3333 views - 11/02/12 by Rodrigo De Castro in Articles

11 Steps to Speed Up Your WordPress Site

In this tutorial we are going to cover what changes help change your website from being a slow low ranking site to a race horse. Lately Google has been...

0 replies - 4053 views - 10/30/12 by Paul Underwood in Articles

Software Design: Simplistic or Optimal

"It is hard for other people to give up on the notion of design simplicity. For example, the notion of simple design is espoused in...

1 replies - 3689 views - 10/29/12 by Rodrigo De Castro in Articles

Scala vs. Clojure as Cathedral Images

 Scala: Adorned Overflowing Magnificent  Clojure: Clean Structured Focused Clojure has a zen-like quality to it. There is extreme...

0 replies - 978 views - 10/29/12 by Jakub Holý in Articles

8 Links to Performance Tips from the Conference Circuit

In this week’s news, we go on the conference circuit to find great web performance tips from Velocity EU, WebPerfDays Europe, JavaOne and more.* Patrick...

0 replies - 3115 views - 10/29/12 by Leigh Shevchik in Articles

Unit Tests Don't Find Bugs: the Death of QA

Unit tests don't find bugs. They find regressions. This is a painful lesson I learned when I first started doing TDD (test-driven development), and...

22 replies - 23028 views - 10/27/12 by Shannon Behrens in Articles

On Testing GWT Apps for Capacity and Performance

The content of this article was originally written by Mark Bakker on the Xebia blog. In my current role as application performance specialist I see a lot of...

0 replies - 2106 views - 10/26/12 by Sylvain Beaumont in Articles

Node.js Fundamentals on Azure

 Last Monday, I gave a talk on Node.js with Windows Azure at the Israel Windows Azure User Group. First of all, I find it incredible that the group meets...

0 replies - 2497 views - 10/24/12 by Sasha Goldshtein in Articles

Improving Web Performance using Navigation Timing Specification

This post is written by Darin Wright. Darin is a Principal Software Engineer at New Relic who works on all things related to RUM — collecting,...

2 replies - 3229 views - 10/23/12 by Leigh Shevchik in Articles

21 Links to Node.js Tools, Enhancements, and Libraries

 Here's a list of useful links including a range of useful tools and tutorials, including using Node.js with Backbone, three videos, and HTML5 audio....

0 replies - 9100 views - 10/22/12 by Tim Spann in Articles

Beware of the Cobra Effect when Increasing Heap Size

The term ‘Cobra effect’ stems from an anecdote set at the time of British rule of colonial India. The British government was concerned about the number...

0 replies - 5360 views - 10/19/12 by Nikita Salnikov... in Articles

13 Links for Node.js Development on Windows with WebMatrix 2

Having found the excellent TOAD for MongoDB (and other NoSQL), Windows is starting to be an okay development platform.  Not as good as Mac or Ubuntu, but...

0 replies - 4349 views - 10/18/12 by Tim Spann in Articles

Video: Monitoring Netflix's JVMs on AWS

Last weekend, Bhaskar Sunkara (VP Product Experience at Appdynamics) gave the following presentation on the partnership between Netflix and and App Dynamics. ...

0 replies - 3665 views - 10/17/12 by Eric Genesky in Articles

Thoughts on the Zero Defect Mentality of TDD

Challenges that led me here Heated arguments at work regarding how much TDD is enough and how little is too little. How do we find common ground?An...

0 replies - 4534 views - 10/16/12 by Justin Bozonier in Articles

Unexpected Java Float Precision Changes

I ran across a little gotcha today where a float value being inserted into another object container (JSONObject) was not holding the precision of the...

3 replies - 3779 views - 10/14/12 by Mick Knutson in Articles