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'Fluidize' Your Favorite Web Apps
29 September 2008
Ever since the advent of tabbed browsing, I've had this naggging problem with having too many open tabs in Firefox. I typically have 15 tabs open at a time. For whatever reason, I seem to have this aversion to closing tabs. In all fairness though, part of this proliferation of tabs has to do with the fact that many of my 'critical' apps are web based. For example, at Bizo, we use the google apps stack: gmail, google docs, google calendar, google sites, fogbugz for project management and bug tracking, and hyperic for monitoring our applications.
Readgeneric method call timeouts using java.lang.reflect.Proxy
26 September 2008
In a future post, I hope to share some code and details on a generic wrapper we built for generated Thrift clients. You pass in a generated Thrift class, and it will return an instance that layers connection pooling, fail-over, connection timeouts, and method call timeouts on top of the thrift code, all without changing the original thrift service API, at runtime.
ReadHello Whirled
22 September 2008
At Bizo we believe in sharing... This blog is to share the Bizo engineering experience with the world. We hope you find something interesting, helpful, inspiring or otherwise thought provoking.
ReadCapistrano deployment with S3
22 September 2008
We recently started using Capistrano for our deployments. It's a great tool and really simplifies doing remote deployments to ec2.
ReadAre we having fun yet?
17 September 2008
This is a test of the bizo developer blogging system...
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