This book title, though amusing, can’t possibly be submitted by the author or publisher. How did this happen? Social engineering, a hole in the api? A screenshot in case they fix it:
Monthly Archives: October 2007
Caching Web Services with APC
24/10/07
Everybody loves web services. It seems like the perfect architecture, back-end (database) stuff is handled independently with front end servers communicating with the back-end via HTTP. The benefits of the RESTful way of building web apps are well documented elsewhere. The is one probably with restful architecture, especially is you are using php. There are [...]
Javascript Scope: Function.apply is your friend
24/10/07
Once you get past the basics of Javascript managing the “this” keyword becomes more and more complex. For me, when writing object-oriented js, I often find it frustrating that methods are loosly bound to their objects. So If I pass a function pointer to somewhere else it is impossible to determine what object that pointer [...]
Should I start a Club?
11/10/07
I am a gradiuate of the USC Film School, currently called “The School of Cinematic Arts”. I have never really worked in the entertainment industry, and of course now I write code at Yahoo!. Interestingly enough, another person in my cinema graduating class also does “internet stuff”, but I think he is somewhat more successful [...]
The iPhone is the tip of the Iceberg
11/10/07
Intel’s 45nm roadmap reveals that procs with the power of desktop CPUs are on their way to the mobile platform. The fact is all the old concerns about mobile development are quickly becoming irrelevant. These things will have plenty of power to run any web app you can throw at them. The issue will become [...]