Lots of Data

Building websites is one thing.  What if you had the opportunity to build an application that served 7 million requests per day?!  Yeah.  Rollups, queries, Innodb customization, triggers, optimization.  Scalability is a huge task.  Time consuming, brain draining but yet challenging.

First rule: Don't try it if you haven't done it!

Why? You need the consultation of an expert, someone who knows what to expect, how to prepare for such.

I have learned a lot recently about developing for huge growth.  So much that I am absolutely overwhelmed yet satisfied with the knowledge that I have learned.  It has been difficult, time consuming and painful but the learning process is so awesome!

If you are experiencing rapid growth in a tech startup, don't hesitate to ask questions about data management because if I don't empty my brain, I just might implode with all of this new useful knowledge!

When the Going Gets Tough...

When the going gets tough, the tough rises to the occasion.  Think about how many difficult challenges you have had in work, personal life or whatever.  If you didn't rise to the occasion, you let "something else" control you. 

Nuff said...

Jobs In the US, My Opinion

Being a citizen of the US since my date of birth, I have seen the world churning from many different perspectives.  Recently, as a father and working professional, I am witness to the unfortunate unemployment rate plaguing many people today.

The real reason is morbid stupidity.  A generation of humans not taught to handle the modern world as it is today.  Those are the people who are lost and jobless.  The people who were quite satisfied making their earnings in a low wage retail or customer service environments.  Those are jobs that require nothing more than basic math and minor personal skills.  I wonder if this unemployment rate actually counts those already living off of the "system"?

I guarantee that most of the people that are out of work are uneducated, lower income, and are just plain morbidly stupid.  Whether or not it was their choice to be that way, is a completely different topic.

I feel for those in unemployment or in dire conditions - I have been there many times in my life. However, we have a problem in 2012 with at least 8% of the population which makes them unemployable.  Not because of the lack of jobs, but because of what they can "bring to the table" which unfortunately isn't that much.

CSS 4, What a Joke!

I have been in the web industry for well over 15 years.  I am well tenured with multiple web languages and platforms.  I was reading some headlines about CSS4 and looked at the W3C recommendation.

I am really in awe.   What a useless set of "features" considering the "global" CSS3 support we have right now. I have actually given up supporting IE browsers complete and develop only for WebKit and Gecko.

In the web industry, I am always looking for ways to be more efficient.  What I find is, more superfluous feature creep that is  a royal pain in the ass to implement.

I am not Google or Facebook or any other large company like that.  I am....me.  On person, one mind, and a lot of real world experience.  I develop web solutions for pure personal satisfaction and to support my family.  It comes to a point where you feel somewhat of a "smack-down" with the bullshit technology that manages to control your "world" of engineering.

Well, as far as CSS4, I laugh, I scoff, and I disapprove of this initiative as it seems to me, a pure "feature" related spec that offers no real (internet) world benefit.