Good stuff, to understand how the web works.

(tags: article architecture w3c standards rest reference)

IBM HTTP Server 2.0 and above is essentially limited by the amount of memory. You can configure up to 20,000 threads per child process, and configure up to 20,000 child processes, for an overall limit of 400,000,000.

(tags: ihs ibm faq tuning config)

(tags: Architecture CIO it)

(tags: acdc video back-in-black wing music)

An intersting look at some of the data you can gather from twitter usage.

(tags: analysis apps data statistics web2.0 twitter)

really fun stuff at MIT

(tags: article history science)

The Centre for Technology Management (CTM) focuses on helping managers to make the most appropriate use of current and future technological resources.

(tags: innovation research)

ure, you’re working long, but “long” and “hard” are now two different things. In the old days, we could measure how much grain someone harvested or how many pieces of steel he made. Hard work meant more work. But the past doesn’t lead to the future.

(tags: gtd work)

Another Great info graphic fron the NY Times

(tags: economics graphics nytimes reference visualization design)

Apple eats mobile industries lunch, while the industry remains clueless: The panel, whose title was It’s the User Experience, Stupid agreed that iPhone represents a model for mobile operators to follow, but they reached little agreement on how to follow.

(tags: design apple mobile iphone)

The main point seems to be that the general purpose relational database management system has outlived its usefulness after 30-40 years, and the market needs specialized database management systems to meet current application requirements.

(tags: dbms mapreduce calltoaction)