Date: Fri Jul 30 21:04:00 2010
Is refactoring easy to spot? According to graphs drawn from commit logs for the framework my blog is based, it is.
Date: Fri Apr 2 23:24:00 2010
There are so many projects out there being rewritten from scratch, you'd think it's a good idea. I think it's not.
Date: Thu Feb 11 17:12:00 2010
The data URIs allow inlining linked documents. Recent experiences show that the benefit they offer is limited.
Date: Wed Nov 12 21:49:00 2008
Avoiding unnecessary optimizations and providing functionality fast, application developers can end up with code that works OK most of the times, but given a special case, can cause serious performance problems. Mine is the case of our CMS, and the way it handled hierarchical page list.
Date: Sun Aug 24 00:56:00 2008
Adding intrusive customer-specific features to a web application means often a lot of work for maintaining the customized version of the application. This cost can be avoided by clever plugin system, which encapsulates the custom features and behaviour, thus leaving the codebase clean of modifications.
Date: Sat May 17 10:00:05 2008
Judging relevance by analysing links was a great move for Google back when it started in search engine business. Improving relevance with blogs after linkfarms and SEO linking schemas came was a good improvement. Now we've come to a situation where a considerable amount of blogs are just fronts for making money with google ads. How to improve the situationa? Here are my thoughts.
Date: Tue May 13 21:06:00 2008
You can tell a lot about a person by looking at his command history. My most used commands are vim, cd, and svn.
Date: Sun May 11 16:35:38 2008
Helpful Vim stuff for my convenience.
Date: Thu Feb 28 21:19:00 2008
This patch adds PostgreSQL support to Vanilla 1.1.4 forum software.
Date: Fri Oct 5 14:47:00 2007
Template Toolkit's new site almost convinces me to go back to writing websites with Perl and TT.