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2009

You guys are moving on this stuff too fast! Welcome to 2002, when lots of us had more spare time than employment and we deployed new crap like this on our blogs and sites daily.

— Les Orchard

# 14th April 2009, 8:57 am / nostalgia, les-orchard, revcanonical

I like rev=“canonical”. Les Orchard summarises the current debate over what colour to paint the rev=“canonical” bikeshed.

# 13th April 2009, 10:41 am / revcanonical, les-orchard, urls

Tagging is like a salt water fish that lots of people thought was pretty and started trying to stick in fresh water tanks. I don’t think it thrives everywhere people have tried to stick it and not everyone who’s tried to clone tagging has gotten all the important parts right.

— Les Orchard

# 25th January 2009, 10:29 am / tagging, analogy, les-orchard

2008

Queue everything and delight everyone. Les Orchard explains why I’ve been getting interested in queues recently: “One of the problems it seems most modern web apps face is the tendency to want to do everything all at once, and all in the same code that responds directly to a user.”

# 4th July 2008, 10:38 pm / les-orchard, queues

2007

libketama (via) A consistent hashing algorithm for memcache clients, from the team at last.fm.

# 20th April 2007, 6:50 am / lastfm, hashing, memcache, les-orchard

Les Orchard: “Web 3.0 will have Galactica-style angled corners.” (via) Here’s hoping.

# 15th February 2007, 10:35 pm / battlestargalactica, twitter, les-orchard, web3, corners, funny

2006

An S3 AJAX Wiki. Les continues to innovate against S3.

# 22nd April 2006, 7:09 pm / s3, javascript, ajax, wiki, les-orchard, aws

2005

Magic Microformat Forms Redux, Now with GreaseMonkey! Les Orchard gets in to Greasemonkey—with accompanying screencast.

# 9th June 2005, 11:18 pm / microformats, greasemonkey, les-orchard

2003

Blogging with AppleScript

Les Orchard describes an intriguing blogging tool built with AppleScript that posts links to a weblog when they are dragged on to a special folder on the OS X desktop.

10:29 pm / 16th January 2003 / blogging, les-orchard, applescript

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