My daily readings 12/10/2009

• What Not To Build

  tags: no_tag

• Hadoop and Solr popularity continue to scale well

  tags: scalability

• Twitter Spawned 50,000 Apps To Date, Will Open Up Firehose For More

  tags: twitter, API, data

  • Four announcements:

    1) Firehose! No details yet (coming early 2010), but everyone will be getting full access to the data stream. This is pretty significant news.

    2) New home for developers: new website launching within the next few weeks, including status dashboard, tutorials, and much more.

    3) Anyone making OAuth requests to Twitter is soon getting an increased rate limit (10x) – about to launch API for browser-less apps, and starting Basic Auth decprecation in June 2010.

    4) Twitter is hosting an official developer conference called Chirp in San Francisco next year.

• Google Web Toolkit: Now With Speed Tracer, Code Splitting, And More

  tags: tools, Development

  • 

• Official Google Blog: Faster apps for a faster web: introducing Speed Tracer

  tags: Chrome, Firefug

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.