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Archive for April, 2009

Surviving the Dragon’s Den: Vertical Scaling

Monday, April 6th, 2009

According to wikipedia, the Dragon’s Den is:

a venture-capitalist television programme that originated in Japan where the format is owned by Sony. The format, which now airs internationally, consists of entrepreneurs pitching their ideas in order to secure investment finance from business experts — the “Dragons”.

As some may already know, in 2009 the television show began in Ireland on RTÉ ONE. This post covers the technical considerations encountered when a web site / application appears on national television. (more…)

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Posted in APC, PHP, echolibre, industry, performance | 7 Comments »

Practical JSON Format Standard

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

Watch out! The semantic web is on the way, a thought that many (and not just the marketeers) may find daunting . Why? Because system and web app developers that want to take advantage of the semantic web will need to learn a lot of new standards and change the way they work.

I have been studying and working with web standards (XHTML, RDF, ATOM, RSS) for well over 4 years now, something I am glad of,  because recently something struck me. Conventions are arising, for example DOAP, SKOS and others, that are built on top of the Resource Description Framework otherwise known as RDF, if they aren’t, they are usually built on something very similar or related. (more…)

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Posted in API, OSS Bar Camp, PHP London, PJSF, echolibre, industry, innovation, performance, security, web3.0 | 21 Comments »

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