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A collection of 8 posts

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Three Models of Value

In product development, we often think of "value" in large, discrete units: the value of project A vs project B; the value of a feature; the value of a refactor or architecture change. When we're deploying continuously, we have an opportunity to replace this mental model

Actually Starting an Open Source Project

I’m a little late to the party, but I just got around to reading Starting an Open-Source Project [http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2013/01/03/starting-open-source-project/] and, as someone who has started several reasonably successful projects, I wanted to publicly disagree with, essentially, the entire article. The article outlines

So You Wanna Help Mozilla?

A common theme we heard in responses to our web developer survey [http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/11/web-developer-survey-update/] was: “I wish I could help Mozilla, but I’m just a web developer.” Well, fellow web ninjas, you can put your skills to work with Mozilla and help make the

Help Me Scale

I’ve been reading Eran Hammer-Lahav’s intelligent [http://www.hueniverse.com/hueniverse/2008/04/scaling-a-micro.html] posts on [http://www.hueniverse.com/hueniverse/2008/03/scaling-a-micro.html] microblog scalability [http://www.hueniverse.com/hueniverse/2008/03/on-scaling-a-mi.html], and now I’m concerned about my own “microblog” site, Picofiction

Better Living through Memcached

I wanted to put something specific in the title, like “Speed up your service” or “Reduce server load” or “Limit database calls” or… You see why I chose “Better Living.” Memcached [http://danga.com/memcached/] is a memory caching system with an obvious name. It allows you to store basically