There is an old saying “A stitch in time saves nine.” What it means is that if there is an issue, if you address it early, it’ll take overall less effort than addressing it down the road. This is saying applies not only to stitch, but to programming as well. Employers should be wary of …
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Feature Gathering
There is an important lesson to be learned from the jQuery versus PrototypeJS battle. While there isn’t really anything wrong with Prototype, jQuery is simply better. Yes, there are some pros and cons to either one, but to me, jQuery was simply better designed. It’s as if, one day, some guy decided to come up …
Finding Problematic Code with Top and Mod Status
The first step to fixing a problem is figuring out that there is one. Top is great command to examine what’s going on your system. It can tell you how resource intensive a process is, how long it’s been running, who executed it, and etc. Through Top, you can see if a process like httpd …
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Unwritten Rules of Professional Web Applications
While there are many unwritten rules, here are few which I find most significant. To me, these are qualities of any professional web application. There should be no single point of failure The site should never be sluggish The site should never show any errors If the site is not available there needs to be …
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