The Sevenforty Blog

Gearing Up for the DC National Half Marathon

blog.sevenforty.com — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:22:06 GMT

It's official! Team Sevenforty and friends will be running in the National Half Marathon located right down the street in Washington, DC. The event takes place on March 20th and runs through Constitution Ave by all the monuments, passed the White House, around Union Station and back to RFK Stadium for the finish.

The (brief) Story of LinkedIn

blog.sevenforty.com — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:48:02 GMT

I recently came across the LinkedIn story written by CNN a few months ago. I always find it interesting to read about how start-ups come to be, what motivates their founders and what keeps them going. The LinkedIn story is particularly interesting in that perspective.

Blogger Regulations

blog.sevenforty.com — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:13:12 GMT

The New York Times is reporting today on new regulations being issued by the FTC regarding product reviews on social media sites such as blogs, Twitter, Facebook, etc.

MySQL Performance Tuning: The Video

blog.sevenforty.com — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:44:51 GMT

What is one of the largest bottlenecks of any given web application? The database tier of course! While the database tier is never the most exciting aspect of an application, it is by far one of the most important (and most often neglected) pieces in the overall web application stack.

Visual Commenting

blog.sevenforty.com — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:27:11 GMT

An in-depth look at The Washington Post's new commenting system, WebCom, and its deviation away from a linear commenting systems.

Liquid Motion Graphics

blog.sevenforty.com — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:17:29 GMT

Some truly remarkable liquid motion graphics. Fantastic Thursday visuals for your enjoyment!

A Few Things about PHP 5.3

blog.sevenforty.com — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:41:01 GMT

Recently we upgraded our development environment to the latest and greatest stable version of PHP 5.3. Of course with almost any update come the usual questions of what is backwards compatible, what has been deprecated and what flat out will break your carefully crafted software.

Cool Cable Management Ideas

blog.sevenforty.com — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:46:38 GMT

Solid cable management is just one of those things that never seems to work right. No matter how hard you try to keep your computer cables neat and tidy, they always seem to come out as a snarled, entangled mess.

Connecting Data - The Next Web?

blog.sevenforty.com — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:54:34 GMT

An interesting video by Tim Berners-Lee on linked data, data relationships and giving up raw data to the wild.

Making Way for HTML 5

blog.sevenforty.com — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:19:07 GMT

In case you haven't heard yet, XHTML is going the wayside in favor of the new standard HTML5. While the pros and cons of XHTML vs HTML5 have been debated back and forth all over the web, the most feverish seems to be around the new video tag.