Online Video Myths
Just a heads up, Tod, the CEO of our company, BrightRoll, (a video ad company), posted a nice small article about some of the myths about video advertising…
Archive for April, 2008
JT Herman Plaza 3
JT Herman Plaza 3
Originally uploaded by drudru
Photo 3 - a portion of the Tibet protest, China support for the Olympic Torch
JT Herman Plaza 2
JT Herman Plaza 2
Originally uploaded by drudru
Photo 2 - a portion of the Tibet protest, China support for the Olympic Torch
JT Herman Plaza 1
JT Herman Plaza 1
Originally uploaded by drudru
Photo 1 - a portion of the Tibet protest, China support for the Olympic Torch
Usenix proceedings now free!
Usenix proceedings are now free!
Nice!
That is some really high quality content.
DHH says “PHP is good”
Frankly, I don’t take everything DHH says as gospel, but I do respect him. Rails is a good design overall.
A lot of people, though, hinge on every utterance he makes. His latest post The Immediacy of PHP will surely jarr some of those zealots info a mild state of confusion.
I think it is great that DHH is open minded and pragmatic. PHP is perfect for a lot of tasks. Check my old post on some of the good things other systems can learn from PHP.
Blast from the Past
Wow, the original mozilla site is such a blast from the past. I remember the web back then, pre tables.
One other thing was interesting…
Trivia Question #1: Do you remember why home1.mcom.com through home32.mcom.com exist?
home1.mcom.com through home32.mcom.com exist because the early browsers did client-side load-balancing: the browser itself had a special case where if it was loading “home.mcom.com” it would actually pick a random number from 1 to 32 and instead load “homeN.mcom.com”! Those were physically different servers in the Netscape data center.
Odd story, when Steve first showed me Mosaic on an SGI. He showed
me this Swedish CS researcher’s “home page”. I immediately thought… ‘this is the stupidest
thing I’ve seen in a long time’. It was like a Swedish version of Mahir.
It wasn’t until I saw things like the early UPS or FedEx tracker (forms and access to real data), that
I got excited about the web. The irony is that if I had seen what that first experience was
really about, I probably could have predicted Geocities, Blogs, and MySpace/Facebook. 
New Rails 2.1 Features
The new features are covered here
Some nice features. Personally, the Gem Dependencies feature is going to be like migrations. One of those things that you would severely miss if you were on another platform.
