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Pennypacker is a Firefox extension that enhances Penny Arcade with favourites and tagging.
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“Facebook has roughly 200 dedicated memcached servers in its production environment”. Blimey. 200 x 16GB is a LOT of cache. Still, 99% of hits go straight to cache – impressive!
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“SimplePie is a very fast and easy-to-use class, written in PHP, for reading RSS and Atom syndication feeds.” …and it’s not Magpie!
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I think this has been updated. Worth bookmarking, anyhow.
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The Jodrell Bank telescopes are twittering what they’re looking at. Beautiful. Devices talking to devices.
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will_paginate gets a nice big 2.0 update, but alters the API. This needs looking into, really.
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“the idea of a page has such a deeply rooted connotation in centuries of printed matter that Web novices tend to think of Web pages as simply finite blocks of text and images, with functionality and interactions as only superficial garnishes.”
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Quite remarkable; alternate-history of SF as if it were all written by Chinese authors. Inventive, witty, deft.
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“I hate the term User Generated Content… I consider it a pejorative that reveals a lot about the person saying it. It makes members of your site feel like dutiful robots, crapping content that you convert into cash.” Great article!
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If you are doing scheduled builds or continuous integration, and those builds are visible to your client or boss or whoever, this should be painfully obvious, but even if you aren’t: the current version in source control is the current version, full stop.
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Blimey. Wasn’t expecting that at all; I’m hoping the site will remain (as they suggest) a “stand-alone operation”.
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A great idea. And, if the gear arrives, I’m planning on taking part.
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More Peepcode goodness. I really don’t get on with Prototype (I’m a jQuery man, myself), so this will probably be worthwhile.
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“Scrobbler is a [ruby library] wrapper for the audioscrobbler (last.fm) web services.” It looks very ncie.