Over the time I have developed for the web, I have read and heard many assumptions about development practices and technologies. This is my list of common misconceptions in (web) development:

1. OO code is less performant than procedural code

The number one argument against OO application design from procedural advocates. This argument is based more on intuition than fact. The usual examples pit short procedural code against equivalent OO code in which procedural code comes out triumphant as more terse and performant.

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When it comes to your Cisco CCNP certification exams, success is in the details, and that’s particularly true of your ISCW exam.

You’re going to need to know all the vital details of configuring and troubleshooting Cisco’s Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), both from the command line and via Security Device Manager (SDM).

We first need to draw a clear line between the operation of the Intrusion Prevention System and the Intrusion Detection System (IDS). Those terms sound similar, but they’re quite different in operation.

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Ricardo Galli by Benjamí Villoslada Gil

Ricardo Galli quite openly tells us the most intimate details of Menéame; how much they earn monthly with Adsense, server costs, purchase offers, internal architecture, keys to success, problems, Varsavsky…

It is not very often that somebody explains so much about their own project. A brief summary and interview follows:

• Menéame runs on a single server, in spite of having 65 million pages viewed according to Webalizer y and 1922 position in Alexa..
• Menéame generates 4,000 dollars monthly in Adsense revenue
• The current expense in servers is 500 euros
• Ricardo Galli prefers Adsense to any other advertising proposal
• He believes that it’s success is due to the fact that the software was developed by them from 0 and published as open source.
• They accepted Varsasky as an investor to cover costs and to feel more secure (sues, legal issues, etc.)
• There are only two developers: Ricardo Galli and Benjamí Villoslada
• Initially Varsasky had a 10% share? of the company and now it has 33%
• They have received offers for the whole of Meneame of more than 6 million euros.

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