Linky Goodness - 6/3/2008

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Welcome to Linky Goodness. I’ll do my best to link out to interesting things I find on the web. I should post this every day or two.

How eBay scales
Excellent article about how eBay manages their systems. Their work on shifting to asynchronous processes wherever possible matches my thinking.

Adventures in Office Space
Joel Spolsky writes in Inc. Magazine about his adventures getting new Manhattan office space for his company. I entirely agree with his policy of spending money to make the developers happy and productive. (Note: beware of Inc’s horribly annoying popups. Luckily I don’t see any of that crap in Safari).

The Big Picture
Alan Taylor’s new project on Boston.com, in which he tells news stories using big, beautiful pictures. It’s really quite compelling.

Rating the top 25 newspaper websites
An interesting overview of the top 25 newspaper websites. Hooray for NYTimes.com getting an A, but I think Boston.com deserves better than a C.

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