Nokia Makes it twice to the top 5 worst cell phone designs
^Since facebook has called for Facebook stories as a part of their PR strategy to celebrate 500 Million facebook users, here’s my story.
I joined Facebook back in late 2006- early 2007, I can’t remember. At that time my entire class was going gaga over Orkut. I remember talking to my friend and classmate about hazards of making friendship online (though secretly i was making few myself.) Anyway, since all my friends were on Orkut, I switched back to Orkut which i left for ever again in September 2008.
Shit this has become more of Orkut story than Facebook Story. Sorry.
^Finally eBooks to gets cheaper
The new rate comes with stipulations too. For example, the book must be priced at between $2.99 and $9.99, and must be available on the Kindle at least 20% below the physical book’s list price.
Looks like ebook war is heating up.
^One thing I would like to have in web based email services is to archive the mail after i open it. As in:
Open>read>archive automatically.
I know you can just click on the archive button above after you read it, but sometimes I just miss it and have to take extra steps to archive it to keep my inbox clean. Do you think Google should have this feature in Gmail? I don’t care about other web based email services since I don’t use them.
^Working on new project where I expect as much as 500 new pics to be uploaded daily which got me to wonder if storing them in a file System is better than storing in a DB. Thankfully my friend, Binny helped me make a decision. Here is what he mailed me:
Hi,
Blob
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Advantages
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When deleting a row, the image gets deleted automatically. If storing
as a file, you have to delete it separately.
Backing up the database will automatically backup the images.
Less maintainenceDisadvantages
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Marginally poorer performance when compared to file system approach.
If you are going to have a lot of images, it is harder to scale.
Big DB=Long time for backups,Long time for search,etc.
You have to make an extra script to view the images.
The code to do this is a bit more complex than just uploading it to
the file system.I realize I’m reaching a bit(especially the last two points) when I
write the disadvantages – but I have to justify my use of file system
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For more info,
http://mysqldump.azundris.com/archives/36-Serving-Images-From-A-Database.html
(Read the comments)
http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2006/03/storing_binary.html
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum88/9091.htm
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2002-10/msg00318.php
http://www.childofthemachine.com/blog/2008/02/image-storage-database-blob-vs-file-system/
http://highscalability.com/flickr-architecture
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Binny V A
http://binnyva.com/
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I have decided to go with File System as I don’t want my Database to grow so huge that it becomes difficult to maintain.
^When you get bashed it means you are doing something right. And these days Microsoft is getting bashed by anyone and everyone. I have personally used many products and services from Microsoft for the past 5-6 years now and I must say they have improved drastically.
Here are the list of products/services I use by Microsoft and I like them!
I suggest if you aren’t using any of these, I suggest you first try them out. If you you like any tool that might interest me please suggest in the comment box below. Mind you, I am no microsoft fangurl!
^