Conferences
Selling Friends: Scaling a High-Traffic Rails Application
At the recent Silicon Valley Ruby Conference, Friends for Sale developer Alex Le outlined the approach they've taken to scaling up to deliver an impressive 300 million page views per month for their Rails-based Facebook application. continue...
Tim Bray: Ruby is the Leading Language for Web Applications
In his keynote talk at the recent Silicon Valley Ruby Conference, Sun's Tim Bray asserted that "PHP and Ruby are the languages of choice for new web apps." Coming from most people, this wouldn't be a remarkable comment, but given that Tim is Sun's director of web technologies, it is worthy of note. continue...
New Articles
from around the Web
-
Face to face: Social networking can't substitute for meeting in person
Commentary on the 2008 All Things Digital conference.
-
One of year’s best entrepreneurial social events
Review of All Things Digital conference in 2008.
Related Books
Crossing the Chasm
One of the great product strategy books of all time. This book coined the phrase “crossing the chasm” which has become the...
List: $17.95 Amazon price: $12.21 Buy
The Wisdom of Crowds
Full of fascinating stories and experimental data about how groups of people behave. Wonderful insights into topics that range from ho...
List: $14.95 Amazon price: $10.17 Buy
How to Win Sales & Influence Spiders
Boosting Your Business & Buzz on the Web
List: $24.99 Amazon price: $16.49 Buy
Links by Type
Presentation Video (3)
- DHH Talk - Startup School 2008 - HackerTV
David Heinemeier Hansson’s talk at Paul Graham’s Startup School. This talk is about business strategy, not Ruby on Rails.
- Startup School - HackerTV
Highlights from Paul Graham’s Startup School, including David Lawee, Google; Sam Altman, Loopt; Jack Sheridan, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati; Paul Graham.
- Marc Andreessen Q&A at Startup School - HackerTV
Top Blogs
-
Gadgets, Google, and SEO
Blog from Google's go-to guy on site rankings.
- BuildingWebApps.com Official Blog
- Deborah Schultz
-
keywordseomax
SEO and internet marketing
- SEO Design Solutions
- TheFunded.com: The Resource for Entrepreneurs.
