Archive for the ‘Reading’ Category

Kiwi Approach

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

On the first pages of ABAP Performance Tuning I’ve already learned something new. One of the most powerful methods of the performance tuning is the Kiwi Approach.

Kiwi = Kill It With Iron.

Custom 404 Examples

Monday, July 21st, 2008

Constructing the custom 404 page for Diorama I was looking for best practices. Unfortunately, Wikipedia is not the best place to start in this case. The page itself, however, has several valuable instructions concerning Apache and IIS tuning.

Google instead, brought me The 404 Research Lab with its nice link collection.

Apart from this: what happens if you get lost by real artist :)

Things to read on a rainy day

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Recently on O’Reilly Radar I came over an interesting data mining project. The “Books that make you dumb” tries to correlate the student SAT scores and the books they read. Apart from discussion how usable these findings are, it is worth to check the right side of the picture.

Already ordered The Freakonomics by Amazon. To be read in train this week.