Archive for October, 2008

Cheap Tricks to Fullfill Your Need for Speed

As I’ve mentioned countless times, the performance of a website can really make or break a user’s experience. Everyone places emphasis on tuning and sharding databases, and buying multi-threaded and multi-core processors. These are all viable solutions but they are either pricey or labor intensive. So what are some quick and clean ways to improve [ READ MORE ]

Presentation for Code Camp ‘08

Part II. Web Application to Web Service Creating a prototype is very challenging, but its not sufficient. Many companies fail to actually create a service, because they simply take a prototype and add more features to satisfy the demands of the users. Transforming a prototype into a product is what I call the app to service [ READ MORE ]

Trade-offs in Unit Testing – Part II Stubs

After spending a couple days implementing test cases using Mock objects, I switched to testing using stubs, because I still needed to verify the functionality of the code. It took me only a few hours to write the test cases I needed using stubs, and with and IDE it’s even easier. But I don’t think its [ READ MORE ]

Presentation for Code Camp ‘08

I will be giving a presentation at Code Camp in about one month. The title of my presentation is “The Evolution of a Scrappy Startup to a Successful Web Service”. In the following posts I will attempt to flush out some of the ideas I plan on presenting. Please feel free to comment on my [ READ MORE ]

Territorial Women

When I was a senior at Duke I was determined to be my own woman. In my mind I thought it would be the last year of my life that I would be living my life on my own terms and not have anyone to answer to; I had the freedom to set my own [ READ MORE ]