The last major update to the HTTP spec dates back to 1999, at which time RFC 2616 standardized HTTP 1.1 and introduced the much needed keep-alive and pipelining support. Whereas HTTP 1.0…
Server-Sent Events (SSE) have long been in the shadow of the much more often talked about WebSockets API. While WebSockets can be thought of as the “TCP for the web”, then SSE is best…
Rails 3.1.0 is on the horizon and the new Asset Pipeline is the king of the show. If this comes as news, then make sure to check out DHH’s keynote from RailsConf, and also read through the …
Perhaps one of the first inescapable observations that a new Google developer (Noogler) makes once they dive into the code is that Protocol Buffers (PB) is the “language of data” at Google….
In honor of the MLB All-Star Game that was just played, I thought I’d write a little top-5 post about my favorite names on the diamond this year. There’s no way I could be an announcer. I would…
