After reading about the IndexedDB stuff (here, here and here) that is coming and looking at its code, I wanted to abstract my local database access a bit more. And I decided to make it more closely match what they are doing. That way when that... Continue Reading
Posts about web-development
At MileSplit, we use a lot of different domains. Each subdomain means something to us and this structure is an integral part of the application. Further with our new API, we want to direct everything to the API's own domain. Browser security... Continue Reading
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We are in the middle of a huge upgrade project over at MileSplit: rewriting significant portions of code, some redesign, rolling out some new features and... Continue Reading
On MileSplit we make extensive use of subdomains. They regionalize our content or otherwise determine exactly what we're after. Additionally, we are starting to make more extensive use of caching servers to store our static content--including... Continue Reading
With a sample size of 1,724,087 visits and over 17,428,039 page views over the last 30 days we have a large enough base for these numbers to actually mean something. While we perhaps have a slightly larger concentration of the younger demographic... Continue Reading
I ran into (yet another) ridiculous Internet Explorer bug tonight that made me pull my hair out for about two hours. I created a javascript object that powers an article scroller... you know one of those things that rotates through top stories on a... Continue Reading
With all of this talk about NoSQL (which while I think it definitely has its use cases, but believe is quite overblown), I thought I'd mention my own recent experience with overcoming weaknesses of the traditional relational database... Continue Reading
This article is a sort of series I'm writing with my experiences of learning the EC2 cloud while learning Sphinx search. The more I learn about Sphinx and use it, the more impressed I am. And also the more possibilities that I see. I believe this... Continue Reading
So like everyone else in the tech world, I am enthralled with Google Buzz right now. I wanted to find out how to implement a button to easily share the content on my site (MileSplit) on Google Buzz.
I found some help on some of the tech blogs who... Continue Reading
I was amazed how much attention my last blog post about the speed tests I had done after after enabling CloudFront on my S3 static content. The post was re-tweeted over and over on Twitter and today I even saw follow-ups of people saying they were... Continue Reading