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Increasingly, websites want to bring you up-to-the-minute details of what is happening on the site, or in related fields depending on what industry you’re in. Whilst this is a nice feature, it’s important to take a step back during development and understand how ‘live’ data can impact on the productivity and profitability of you site.
A lot of ‘off-the-shelf’ packages will take care of this for you, and your friend is scheduling tasks. This takes processing power away from having to do a task on-the-fly when you request something (and there might be a great deal of people requesting it!) – and means that the server is only under load at specific times, manageable by you – or your developer at least!
Being the subject of a direct attack ourselves; we know the confusion and frustration felt by those at the Sony camp today, as the PlayStation network remains offline for a sixth consecutive day.
In a further blow, Sony has now admitted that the personal credit card information of some of the network’s 75million users worldwide may have been “compromised”.
Through experience, my favourite language for the .NET Framework is probably F#. True, it doesn’t fit into every situation; I don’t fancy writing a website with it for example. But for scripts and utilities, there’s nothing better.
You can run things interactively using F# Interactive or you can compile something up and use it as a normal executable. It’s super-fast to prototype with, which is great when you’re just throwing ideas around the office like we often do at Branded3.
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- Talk to Branded3 at @BuyYorkshire in Leeds next week!
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