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Is IIS7 on Vista not serving static content? by Tim Marman

If you add IIS7 and ASP.NET on Vista, many of the common HTTP modules are not installed by default – including the one for static content. The problem is that it doesn’t return a 404 or other error, but rather zero-byte files. If you’re seeing empty files...

We are looking to hire good developers by Tim Marman

Notches is hiring developers . We’re looking to bring on developers to be part of the core engineering team. We want people that can contribute to the product in a myriad of ways beyond coding. We want people who can ask the tough questions and challenge...

The Challenges of Scaling Twitter's Follower Model by Tim Marman

I wrote previously that Twitter's architecture is not scalable for real-time messaging . Indeed, the Twitter development team talked about this recently . Twitter is, fundamentally, a messaging system. Twitter was not architected as a messaging system...

Firefox 3 Beta 3 by Tim Marman

I've been using the recently released Firefox 3 Beta 3 for a few days on my home machine. It's not quite ready for prime-time - I've found that in particular a lot of AJAX stuff, like on Twitter, doesn't work. Not sure if the implementation is just not...

Facebook opens up with a JavaScript API by Tim Marman

Facebook just announced a new JavaScript Client Library that allows you to make Facebook API calls from any web site . In other words, you can start building Facebook applications are live outside of Facebook. I agree with Charlie that this move " makes...

Creating a better 404 by Tim Marman

Jeff Atwood rants about the typical 404 page , saying "the average internet user has no idea what 404 means or what to do about it. To them, it's yet another unintelligible error message from the computer. Most 404 pages are unvarnished geek-speak." Jeff...

Passion and its role in evaluating new product ideas by Tim Marman

Evan Williams has an absolutely wonderful post up about evaluating a new product idea . I think Marc is spot on - the "personally compelling" criteria is the one that stands out. Last on the list, but probably the first question I ask myself is: How important...

Congrats to Faisal on his new role on the ADO.NET team by Tim Marman

My good buddy Faisal has moved from MSBuild to ADO.NET . Specifically, he's the Program Manager for LINQ to SQL and the Object Service for Entity Framework. He says you'll hear a lot more from him on these things, but of course if past history is any...

Distinguishing between a platform and a destination by Tim Marman

Charlie says that "the whole idea that you have a main site is dead". I couldn't agree more - I strongly believe that platforms are the future of the Internet. One clarification I'd like to make in this whole discussion is Facebook is both a destination...

What exactly is an iPhone application? by Tim Marman

Scoble mentions 3 new iPhone apps today from Newsgator, Bloglines, and Google. It's interesting that companies keep saying they are doing "iPhone development", when really these are nothing more than sites skinned to look more natural on the iPhone. The...
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