A well designed website: Nielsen Norman Group… :)
Number of Programmers
From here some interesting stats:
- 6 million PHP programmers
- According to Linkedin, Facebook currently employs approximately 8850 software developers.
- At Amazon, there are around 36,000 developers writing code.
- Apple employs around 20 million developers, and together they have made about $100 billion in revenues.
- As of now, Netflix employs only 80 software engineers, who build 50 applications.
- According to the official Google employee report, 27,169 software engineers work at Google (i.e. research & development).
Open Data Scripts for Wikipedia
Today I discovered wikiscript: Open Data Scripts for Wikipedia – Turn Free-Style (or Semi-Structured) Text into Structured Data.
Formally Modeling Database Migrations
This is great: Formally Modeling Database Migrations. I need more formal methods in my life.
REST API doco
Some tools for API documentation: Say Goodbye to Manual Documentation with these 6 tools.
Fastmail status
I came across this today and thought it was a good example of a service availability reporting system: www.fastmailstatus.com.
Caching in 2021
Via Hacker News today: New HTTP standards for caching on the modern web.
136 facts every web dev should know
Today via Hacker News: 136 facts every web dev should know before they burn out and turn to landscape painting or nude modelling.
My fav:
Server-routed sites aren’t perfect, but there’s a lot less that can go wrong.
WinBox.js
Via r/programming today, this is great: WinBox.js.
Intelligent brute forcing
Via r/programming today: Intelligent brute forcing.