Software Physics

Ever find your self trying to optimize away loop overhead or cringing at the thought of one more string comparison? Chances are, if you’re a server-side developer you’ve had to worry about this type of minutia at one point in your life. The solution: get the bits off the server, CodeBoy. Fat client applications can frequently provide this help but browser clients almost never help servers shoulder application load. As we become more sophisticated about client-side browser processing, maybe AJAX techniques can be used for more than just snappy UIs and applied to help scale the server side of “Web 2.0″ applications. Read more »