http://jasondavies.stumbleupon.com/ jasondavies's recent URL reviews on StumbleUpon en-us Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:54:54 -0800 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:21:47 -0700 http://jasondavies.stumbleupon.com/ http://cdn.stumble-upon.com/images/logo_su_36x36.png Mon, 11 May 2009 07:46:06 -0700 http://www.stumbleupon.com/to/7OklSC/www.jasondavies.com/blog/2009/05/08/couchdb-on-wheels/t:4afbbf4e24e48;src:reviews http://jasondavies.stumbleupon.com/review/32726933/ My blog post on developing a simple Web site entirely on CouchDB. This is known as a "CouchApp", and is done by writing the site using server-side JavaScript.

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"20% of the time is spent loading the document HTML, the other 80% is spent downloading CSS and JS files."

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1. Focus on technique as opposed to outcome.
2. Set specific goals.
3. Get good, prompt feedback, and use it.

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