joshuago’s Bookmarks

By changing a problem slightly you can often do great work rather than merely good work. Instead of attacking isolated problems, I made the resolution that I would never again solve an isolated problem except as characteristic of a class.

The issue of pre-loading needed data for a Rails application has always been somewhat confusing and difficult.

Highcharts is a charting library written in pure JavaScript, offering an easy way of adding interactive charts to your web site or web application. Highcharts currently supports line, spline, area, areaspline, column, bar, pie and scatter chart types.

If you're new to NoSQL, you'll want to do a bit of background reading.

A seminal blog post which helped to spark the current widespread NoSQL mania. It defines various criteria by which we can decide if a solution is truly scalable or not.

The most important thing is to have good examples on which to hang the abstract ideas. If the example takes too long to explain or is too much tied to a particular application, I might lose the interest or attention of too many readers. Thus I spend a great deal of time trying to find examples that are simultaneously easy to grasp and quite instructive.

A lot of folks get excited to build an application only to become discouraged when they realize attracting users and building content is a lot of work. The point is, if you need it, there is more than enough reason to build it.

Why educational performance is critical to a society's wealth and how the modern university is not appreciably improved over the template established in 1088. Proposes some simple changes that should greatly improve the effectiveness of undergraduate education.

A really useful thread on Hacker News for non-programmers who want to be involved in an early-stage startup.

Sure, Wal-Mart is making a statement that it’s a player in the online world, but the real goal of this conflict isn’t to lure readers away from Amazon, and it isn’t to get people to buy one of those ten books. It’s to lure them online, away from big booksellers and other retailers, and then sell them other stuff.