First of all, before anything else, am I the only one that's noticed that gmail is still in beta? Man those guys are thorough. I can't wait for RC1 I hear it's going to be really awesome.
So, tonight I was on the intar looking for some blogspiration (yeah, ok you can use that, but you gotta give me the credit) and I happened upon this blog: Gmail Blog I don't know about you, but when I picture the team of people that work for google I see something like this:
I was pleasantly surprised to read the article that I posted. It was definitely a refresher in basic troubleshooting for slow loading pages. I think this stuff is invaluable for good developers, everyone needs to be reminded sometimes, it's so logical. Caching, monitoring HTTP transactions, and using tools like fiddler is something I would do in my trusty office. To think that Google developers think of the same things I do when trying to make their app speedy makes me like them a lot more. Maybe that's the plan?
This is sad:, there has GOT to be a way to make this profitable and scalable! Even if big companies with bad raps sponser it, like Microsoft or IBM. How much different is it than ball parks sponsered by Citibank and Cisco? Someone do this, please.
Today while working, I realized how dumb it is that you can't insert multiple rows with one insert statement (without a subselect). Then I came upon this article on reddit and saw this will be fixed in 2008. Good going Microsoft, why do so many people hate those guys? Anyway, some educational comparisons in there as well.
Anyway, thanks for all the great feedback, everyone, I really appreciate of your help.
As far as SQL Server they should really reconsider the ROW_NUMBER story and adopt the MySQL way of LIMIT; so much more elegant. I'd vent about date/time too, but I heard they're fixing that. I'll keep the rest for later.
ReplyDeleteAre you in Philly, why are you so upset about it? If they can't make it work financially it would collapse sooner or later anyway.