The Spot Blog

Like any tech shop, we send around interesting links and reading material.  From the past week:

Threads Suck

Intel's declared the hyper-core future, throwing the gauntlet firmly in the direction of programmers everywhere.  It's natural to start thinking about multithreading, lock-related pain and synchronized blocks, but Eich of JavaScript fame lays out some ground rules for the future of that language.  Seems that even web developers will need to deal with parallel processing in some form.

jQuery Sparklines

Nifty.  We're currently writing with Prototype/Scriptaculous, but the entire team's pretty impressed with jQuery.  There was an aborted mootools conversion attempt in the past, but perhaps that won't stop us from trying again.  In any case, supplementing activity logs with some sparkline graphs may be a nice touch in LimeSpot.

Sexy Forms in Rails

It's arguable that Rails's greatest benefit is simplifying form building.  Here's a step further.

Wordpress 2.6

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