Possibly the single-most important piece of advice I give to every software developer right now is to use memcache (or memcached to be specific). I’ve become an evangelist of the software since working for Squidoo.
Memcache is just exactly what it says it is — a memory cache daemon (service). It’s lightweight and very fast and [...]
Read the full article → May 20, 2009Although I haven’t written about it yet, for me the most important set of web services and APIs for my work are provided by Amazon. Without a doubt I use these services more than any others. Today I received this message:
Effective immediately, we are renaming the Amazon Associates Web Service as the “Product Advertising API.” [...]
Read the full article → May 8, 2009