Fabrizio Moscon

26th June 2012 Fabrizio Moscon in Phpunit, Unittest, Oo

22nd June 2012 Fabrizio Moscon in Elasticsearch, Solr

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  Realtime Search: Solr vs Elasticsearch

  What is Elasticsearch? Elasticsearch is REST based, distributed search engine powered by the excellent Lucene library. The built in JSON + HTTP API provides an elegant platform perfect for integrating with (ex: the elastic_searchable ruby gem). It's simple, scalable and cool, bonsai cool. Why is it better than Solr?

20th June 2012 Jimmy Kyriacou in Marketing, Sales, Branding, Entreprenurship

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  Have Customers Write Your Ads

  Marketers aren't usually very good at writing an effective, strong sales message. You're better off asking customers for help. Corbis I recently received an email from the sales training firm Huthwaite (the "Spin Selling" guys) about how companies can keep revenues high in 2012.

20th June 2012 Peter Johnson Virgin Media about Productivity, Wifi, London, Tube, Transport

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  London Underground WiFi from Virgin Media

  What is Virgin Media WiFi? Virgin Media WiFi lets you go online at enabled stations. You'll be able to connect in ticket halls, walkways and platforms. At every WiFi-enabled station, you'll have instant access to the latest London news, listings and travel updates on the new Virgin Media WiFi portal.

19th June 2012 Gordon Murray Dent in Php

• React

  An example: Webserver This simple web server written in React responds with "Hello World" for every request.

7th June 2012 Neel Upadhyaya in Databases, Application Architecture

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  OrmHate

  database · application architecture tags: While I was at the QCon conference in London a couple of months ago, it seemed that every talk included some snarky remarks about O­b­j­e­c­t­/­R­e­l­a­t­i­o­n­a­l­ mapping (ORM) tools. I guess I should read the conference emails sent to speakers more carefully, doubtless there was something in there telling us all to heap scorn upon ORMs at least once every 45 minutes.

31st May 2012 Fabrizio Moscon in Startup, Process

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  5 Ways Process Is Killing Your Productivity

  If your team spends its days asking for permission before executing, taking an hour to complete expense reports or time sheets, attending redundant meetings, or answering irrelevant emails, you've got a problem. Processes are supposed to help organizations scale up, improve efficiency for new hires and existing employees, and so on--but they can quickly get out of control.

31st May 2012 Peter Johnson in Web Development, Web Services, Api

• Hypermedia APIs - Jon Moore

  RESTful web services are one of our core design patterns. Fielding's thesis identifies four major constraints that identify a RESTful architecture (statelessness, resource-orientation, uniform interface, hypermedia-driven application state). Many "RESTful" APIs only get 3 out of 4 of these; we've begun experimenting with using XHTML as a media type for our APIs, and this provides a lot of power in terms of scalability and loose coupling between client and server.

30th May 2012 Ismini Chatzitheofilou in Health Economics

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  12 Healthcare Startups To Watch

  Yesterday was healthcare startup incubator Rock Health's first Demo Day. I was fortunate enough to mentor many of the young companies. Almost to a person, the founders don't come from healthcare backgrounds, and thus look at healthcare-industry problems with fresh eyes. That also means, however, that they have differing degrees of knowledge about the healthcare market.