A one man show

August 20, 2009 by nuno costa no comments

Most open source projects start this way.

One solo developer who releases a piece of code to the community.

But what happens when the project grows and gains popularity ?

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Don’t comment your code

by nuno costa 8 comments

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I’ve seen a lot of “beginners best practices” advising to comment your code to exhaustion. To comment every single line of it, so in the future you know what you where doing!

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Speeding up your web site by serving less files

July 12, 2009 by nuno costa 1 comment

Last week I had to solve some performance problems on a customer’s site.

The problem was simple, the customer recently started a web campaign that attracted lots of traffic, he is getting around 70 000 unique visitors a day and the site is not as responsive has it was.

Has the site was already on its own dedicated server, I started with the obvious places

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