Archive for April, 2009

Let’s say we’ve got some twenty-five million chunks of data ranging in size from one K to several meg. Let’s also say that we only rarely ever need to access this data, but when we do, we need it fast. Would your first choice be to save this data in a relational... »

For the past couple of days I’ve been pondering our browser support chart that the Mozilla webdev team wrote up about a year ago. Since then, the browser ecosphere has changed considerably. Chrome burst onto the scene with no warning, IE8 was released and Safari 4 is up-and-coming. One of the toughest parts of... »