Greg Linden: Early Amazon: Splitting the website
Mike Clark: Managing (Rails) Plugins with Piston
ZDNet: MySpace: IT on a Wing and a Microsoft Prayer
Mongrel is 1.0 (actually 1.0.1)
New Architect: From Hot Concept to Hot Site in Eight Days – Rapidly scaling hotornot.com
Minor Emacs Wizardry – Great new emacs blog
TFTPD32 – free TFTP server for win32 that removes the 32mb file limit (useful for newer huge IOS images).
Cisco TAC Case Collection: Cisco Call Manager Express / Unity Express Quick Install guide
Cisco TAC Case Collection: Allowing traceroute through a Cisco PIX Firewall
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]]>RingyDingy - high-availability for RingServer-based dRB applications.
Dual-Master MySQL5 Replication Done Right
RubyOnRails - Indexing for Database Performance
]]>Wired News: Straight Dope on the iPod's Birth. Note quite the same story Steve Jobs likes to tell.
MacBook Pro ExpressCard EVDO setup & review. Nice review of the Verizon Wireless EVDO card.
How Many Mongrels to Start. Great post from Zed on the mongrel-users list on how to empirically determine the number of mongrel processes you should run to get optimal performance.
CPAN: MapReduce.pm. Perl implementation of Google's MapReduce distributed processing algorithm. Seems to use SSH to execute jobs on remote machines and doesn't currently handle any time of distributed filesystem operations. Nice start, though.
Bare Bones Project Hacks. Simple one-page introduction to the entire meat of the Project Management body of knowledge.
Password Composer shell version. Shell script implementation of the awesome "master password" system for generating unique passwords for each web site for which you have an account.
JavaScript MD5. Implementations of MD4, MD5, and SHA-1 in pure JavaScript. Also, jsSHA2 for generating SHA-256.
JSMIN. The JavaScript minimizer. Takes a nicely-formatted JavaScript file and shrinks it by removing whitespace and comments. Useful for reducing overall page weight.
Caching and Precaching with memcached. Ruby code for interacting with memcached and pre-loading it to further improve performance.
Building Console Apps with SimpleConsole. Introduction to the terrific SimpleConsole Ruby library for abstracting the boring parts of console applications (like command processing, formatting output, etc.)
]]>How Do I Make It: An Amazon S3 Hosted Website using Interarchy.
jQuery looks like an interesting JavaScript library. Wonder how it compares to Prototype.
]]>Cal Henderson: How We Built Flicker
Typo Installer. The new 4.0 version of the Typo weblog software has an integrated installer that is a model for how Rails-based (and really, any) web applications should be delivered.\
Totally Free Math. A professional beginning Algebra textbook (and experimental video lectures) provided for free because the authors don't care for the current trent of $110 textbooks.
Getting to Deadline - Programmer Productivity Tips at Work
Down from the Top of its Game. - The Story of Infocom, Inc.. From an MIT class on software engineering.
A Technical History of Apple's Operating Systems. Bonus chapter from Amit Singh's amazing book on MacOS X Internals.
]]>ZDNet has an interview (part one, part two) with the founder of Digg, Kevin Rose.
A post in the WoW forums lists the locations of all 50 coins you can collect as part of the Lunar Festival quests.
From LifeHacker: use a dollar bill as a quick-and-dirty ruler. Handy when you're at Home Depot or something and need to check a size.
Serious Editing in iPhoto 6 looks like a solid electronic guide to doing simple (and not-so-simple) photo manipulation without resorting to an application like PhotoShop.
Panic has a new version of Transmit, their awesome MacOS X file transfer client (FTP, SFTP, WebDAV). The latest release provides Intel compatibility, bug fixes, and a few choice new features like the ability to edit any type of file (image, Word doc, etc.) instead of just text files.
MacOS X Hints describes some hidden preferences in Apple's iPhoto 6.
Slingbox appears to be a device that will let you stream live television and control your TiVo from anywhere on the Internet. Doesn't work with Macs yet, so I'm not all that interested, but a great concept. Hope the TV/movie industry doesn't sue them into oblivion.
The New Yorker reviews a new biography of Alan Turing, and takes a fairly in-depth look at his life in general.
Gloriously geeky look at what actually goes on inside the Solaris 10 networking stack. From the author of the networking section of a new version of Solaris Internals.
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