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Significant Rails Performance Improvements On The Way

Danish Khan (curiousbear) — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:39:49 GMT

via Rails Inside by Peter Cooper on 9/3/08 The developer of NeverBlock, Muhammad Ali of eSpace, has written a compelling blog post called Building the Never Blocking Rails, Making Rails 12X Faster where he outlines a number of improvements and changes that can made to Rails to send its performance through the glass ceiling. It's worth noting, however, that the performance increases revolve around removing blocking operations (e.g. database queries that lock up a single Rails process for long periods of time) rather than truly increasing the "performance" of Rails at the base level...

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There is a guy with an icecream cart walking around campus. Smart idea cuz it's crazy hot.

Danish Khan (curiousbear) — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:57:52 GMT

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Why Twitter is winning

Danish Khan (curiousbear) — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:43:01 GMT

via TechCrunchIT by Steve Gillmor on 9/1/08 Twitter is winning and most of its competitors remain in denial. In spite of almost 5 months of unavailability of its most viral service, Twitter remains the platform of choice for most users. FriendFeed remains a hybrid of conversations and semi-realtime aggregator, capturing most of the energy of Google Reader as a citation engine but stubbornly refusing to allow its metadata to flow back into Twitter and other real time engines. Facebook has freshened up its UI and allowed us to personalize the news stream to vaguely emulate Twitter. And Jaiku appears to have made the leap to App Engine and could resurface momentarily, only to remind us why Twitter won that one in the first place. Jaiku was always the erector set that could do anything, but who has the time to do anything these days? Better to do what we can do, and let the winners expand their offerings. Supporters of the open source Laconica project and its flagship Identi.ca see the platform as a challenger to Twitte...

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Google Chrome: Is Google planning to release a web browser?

Danish Khan (curiousbear) — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:06:11 GMT

via Download Squad by Brad Linder on 9/1/08 Filed under: Internet, Google, Browsers Rumors that Google plans to release a web browser have been circulating for years. Personally I've never placed much stock in them, because it's always made more sense to tme that Google would continue releasing plugins for existing browsers like Firefox and Internet Explorer to allow users to take advantage of Google's web services. After all, that's what the company has done with the Google Toolbar, Google Gears, and the now-defunct Google Browser Sync. But Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped has posted a comic book which he says comes straight from Google which seems to indicate that the search engine giant will indeed release a browser soon. Reportedly called Google Chrome, the browser will be based on the open source Webkit rendering engine. So what would Google Chrome have that you can't find in other web browsers? Includes a brand new JavaScript virtual machine called V8 Tabs wil go above the window, not belo...

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Reading a book since the power is out.

Danish Khan (curiousbear) — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:16:49 GMT

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Man the power just went out

Danish Khan (curiousbear) — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:06:34 GMT

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Cal football halftime show parachuting

Danish Khan (curiousbear) — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:07:59 GMT

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Cal football halftime show army parachuting down into the stadium

Danish Khan (curiousbear) — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:06:58 GMT

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Update On The TechCrunch Tablet: Prototype A

Danish Khan (curiousbear) — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:09:44 GMT

via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on 8/30/08 Update on the TechCrunch Tablet: A humble (and messy) beginning. Prototype A has been built. It’s in a temporary aluminum case that a local sheet metal shop put together for us that’s at least twice as thick as it needs to be, but the hardware has been defined and is nearing lockdown. We booted the machine in the case for the first time today, accessed the Wifi network and were able to navigate a web page via the touch screen. Most of the work is transitioning to software and ...

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Marching band

Danish Khan (curiousbear) — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 02:56:52 GMT

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