Brendan Tompkins’ chart showing the correlation of bugs to software cost is probably not far off. This is because cheap software is often cheap thanks to economies of scale – meaning hundreds of thousands (or maybe millions) of users. When you’ve got 10 clients, having 10% of your users calling you isn’t so bad; when […]
Well, it’s working reliably anyway. Many people who visit the site click Next maybe once or twice before leaving, but I mentioned it in a Slashdot post this morning, and got quite a few visitors.. And those visitors clicked Next an average of 5 or 6 times each. I guess folks reading Slashdot have more […]
Well it’s sort of working… I throttled back my RSS harvester to one thread, and that seems to have stabilized things… When it’s running flat out there are bursts where I’m simultaneously pulling RSS items from 20 or more sites at the same time and adding them to the database… all this activity is (I […]