Thursday, April 01 2010

Just a couple of minor notes:

  • Tonight I switched data centers. There may be a small outage for some because I forgot to lower the TTL on the old DNS entries before the move: I guess being the, uh, "world's most pre-eminent domainologist" doesn't mean I'm always on top of such things, at least not for what now is just a wrapping around a blog.
  • I made the move because I'm finally making use of the domain, and the reason for needing a more powerful platform will become clear.
  • I often do minor edits of published pieces after the fact, without noting it as an edit. Often I'll read back through the archives and see typos, wording that I'd like to correct, etc, so I fix it for future readers. The most common edits see me removing parenthetical asides that add nothing. The software I wrote to run this does store every revision, so technically I could provide a diff'able history and have long considered doing that.
  • Speaking of blog software, one solved problems that strangely causes havoc again and again are dynamic sites that fall over whenever they get any attention. Over the past while I've had days with torrents of incoming visitors, and the CPU needle barely ever spikes to the point of being measureable. It is just inconceivable that a simple blog dies when it gets on Reddit or the like. Seriously - caching, figure out how to use it. If you can't get it into your software itself, stick your site behind an nginx instance and use its wonderful functionality.
  • Every entry that I post is automatically run through tidy. I really consider it important that mark-up claiming to subscribe to a given standard actually honors that standard.
  • I've withdrawn from the whole NoSQL debate because it got incredibly boring. My closing note is simply to say that the way that many are using NoSQL is like discovering the buggy whip at the beginning of the automotive era.

Incredible times ahead.

   

Reader Comments

The buggy whip comment is brilliant. I look forward to whatever you do.
Jacob @ 4/2/2010 9:12:55 PM

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Dennis Forbes Dennis Forbes is a Toronto-based software architect. While focused primarily on the .NET and SQL Server worlds, Dennis frequently ventures outside of this comfort zone into game development and image processing. He has been published in several industry magazines, has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal and has been interviewed by NPR.

He is a vice president and lead software architect at an innovative New York City hedge fund back-office services firm.

Dennis has been working on solutions for the financial, telecommunications, and power generation markets for over 15 years.





 

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