September 2009
5 posts
Moving Beyond End-to-End Path Information to... →
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fascinating
You go through the expense of installing CDNs all over the globe to make sure users always have a node close by and you notice something curious and furious:…
SpriteMe (part 2) →
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interesting details on what images to sprite and why
Earlier this week, I wrote a blog post announcing SpriteMe. This is a follow-up post where I talk about what…
"Insane killer" who was treated to a day at a... →
What could be wrong with taking an insane killer to the country fair? Oh, yeah. Insane killer escapes on trip to county fair (Via Bits & Pieces)
Why You Should Switch from Subversion to Git →
You may have heard some hubbub over distributed version control systems recently. You may dismiss it as the next hot thing, the newest flavor of kool-aid currently quenching the…
Cutting Cake Gets Easier With The Cake Server →
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I think I need this
By David Ponce
A simple stainless steel creation by Scandinavian designer Maria Kivijärvi, the Cake Server could replace your current wedge-shaped…
August 2009
1 post
Chop Sabers →
By Andrew Liszewski
Will mankind ever run out of stick-like objects that can easily be turned into light sabers? I certainly hope not. The latest distinctly non-Star Wars item to get…
July 2009
3 posts
RailsLab .:. Scaling Rails - Episode #15 - Load... →
RailsLab .:. Scaling Rails - Episode #16 - Load... →
Anemone - Ruby Web-Spider Framework →
June 2009
10 posts
Google Geo Developers Blog: Google I/O 2009: Geo... →
Velocity 2009 : Conference presentation slides «... →
Google Geo Developers Blog: Travellr: Behind the... →
Twitter in 1935 →
From Modern Mechanix, a Twitter-like machine from 1935, that looks like a prop from the movie Brazil.
Robot Messenger Displays Person-to-Person Notes In Public
To aid persons who…
Lojic Technologies Blog · How to Write a Spelling... →
How to Write a Spelling Corrector →
Sippin’ Seat Assures You’ll Always Have A Warm... →
By Chris Scott Barr
Oh crappy convergence products, I’ll never grow tired of seeing you. I mean what would the world be like without products that took two useful things and combined them…
Yahoo! Distribution of Hadoop →
Home | GIS Search →
Diagnosing Technical Issues With Search Engine... →
May 2009
4 posts
Dan Manges's Blog - Rails: Performance Tuning... →
#1 Search Engine Ranking Factor: SEO QA | Local... →
Active Record Query Interface →
Presentations: MySQL Conference & Expo 2009 →
The Presentations of the MySQL Conference & Expo 2009 held April 20-23 in Santa Clara is available on the above link.
They include:
Beginner’s Guide to Website Performance with MySQL and…
April 2009
1 post
InfoQ: Facebook: Science and the Social Graph →
March 2009
8 posts
TextMate Screencasts for Rubyists →
Apdex.org →
Nodeta » Blog Archive » Stopping your Rails... →
RailsLab .:. Scaling Rails →
InfoQ: Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary... →
The Ruby Object Model - Structure and Semantics →
10 things you need to know about backup solutions... →
How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less... →
February 2009
5 posts
Building PhotoKast: Creating an iPhone app in one... →
Scaling Rails Screencasts →
Case you haven’t heard yet, I’m happy to announce that my Scaling Rails Screencasts are now up. You may remember that about 2 months ago I released an envycast on Scaling Ruby. Scaling…
mysql-master-master - Google Code →
Faster MySQL failover with SELECT mirroring |... →
Faster MySQL failover with SELECT mirroring →
One of my favorite MySQL configurations for high availability is master-master replication, which is just like normal master-slave replication except that you can fail over in both directions. Aside…
January 2009
1 post
How to do Basecamp-style subdomains in Rails →
Code example
December 2008
9 posts
Behavior-Driven Development Using Ruby (Part 2) |... →
Behavior Driven Development Using Ruby (Part 1) |... →
Behavior Driven Development Using Ruby (Part 3) |... →
David Chelimsky an introduction to RSpec - Part I →
InfoQ: Presentation: Second Life’s Architecture →
HTTP Status Code →
Strategy: Facebook Tweaks to Handle 6 Time as Many... →
MySQL Database Scale-Out and Replication for High... →
Deploying MySQL Database in Solaris Cluster... →
November 2008
10 posts
A quick way to get memcached status →
There are all sorts of different interfaces to memcached, but you don’t need any of them to make requests from the command line, because its protocol is so simple. Try this, assuming it’s running on…
How Percona does a MySQL Performance Audit | MySQL... →
SourceForge.net: scribeserver →