…word about the Ruby on Rails Tutorial project, I've added a Facebook Like button to the site (and to each news post). If you genuinely like the book, I'd appreciate it if you took the time to click on the Like button when you get the chance. (If you don't like the book, I'm afraid you're out of luck until Facebook comes out with a Dislike button.)
Thanks again to all the Rails Tutorial readers who offered their support, encouragement, and …
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…looking to take on the mutual fund industry. The startling part is that kaChing started out as a... Facebook game. That's an epic pivot, like shifting from making solar calculators to powering the Space Shuttle. How'd it happen? [Disclosure: Eric is an advisor to kaChing. He introduced me to their CTO but didn't participate in the interviews.]
kaChing launched two products in early 2008: a virtual portfolio management game on Facebook and a version of the game on kaChing.com…
…FriendFeed, a site which did nothing but aggregate your RSS feeds from Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, etc., all in the same place.
The story behind Gmail is relevant; Google already had a message archiving and search system for Usenet, and Buchheit said, well, why not put our e-mail in it? This is also an example of a product driven by abundance, not demand, yet it's an example which succeeded, because Gmail developed incredibly good spam protection, for which there was incredible …
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Love it when I meet people who are happy, but not, like Facebook happy ("love life right now xoxox"), or like ‘happy because [insert name of deity/peen] love me', or happy because they lie to themselves about how real shit is out there, how life plays for keeps. But happy because they know shit is fucked but this is their only chance on the fucking merry-go-round, so they're like ‘fuck it'.
As Facebook is getting ready to announce a registered user base of 500 million, there is also some interesting news that the company will be enabling the development of mobile applications for the social network. While most of Facebook's services are designed for use on desktop PCs and laptops, a new generation may be on its way - a generation that is laid out to work especially with smartphones. It is not difficult to imagine that there may be a whole new opportunity for app ideas within Facebook.
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This has been around for a little while now, but Genius Pool now has Twitter integration when a new job is posted. Check it out and post a job.
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" Facebook development is like building a ship in a bottle. Inside another bottle. While wearing mittens" @ heavysixer # rubymidwest
RT: @ tswicegood Regarding Facebook dev: FBML == Duplo, IFrame == Lego. # rubymidwest Rough to be the last talk of the day. A good percentage of the crowd has bailed, lots of us would rather drive a spike through our cornea than write a Facebook app, and everyone in the room has a severe case of mental fatigue. Still he did a good job. …
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Putting the static back into Ruby — Tomasz Stachewicz
Anatomy of Ruby i18n — Sven Fuchs
Matz's Keynote — Matz!
More can be found on Vimeo and if you'd rather just read a write up of what happened, Markus Prinz has writeups for Day 1 and Day 2 of the conference.
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…creating new articles and increasing amount of versions in system. Applications such as Facebook, Flickr or Twitter have a very clear correlation between traffic and users.
Each registered user will in average have N MB of data stored in database, and traffic system is getting is somewhat proportional (though often not linear) to amount of users.
For systems of the first type the data size grows independently of traffic so it is fine to measure system capacity in Transactions per …
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