March 2009
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WatchAntarctica.
Simply amazing…
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10 Creative & Rich UI interfaces & How to Create Them | Noupe
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Mechanical Turk: The Demographics
Why People Participate on Mechanical Turk?
Design Fast Websites
Vertical Centering in CSS
RSS Twitter Bot [ruby] [rss] [xml] [activerecord] [twitter]…
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Fonts: Killer Typography Tools and Free Font Downloads
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Caching & Performance: Lessons from Facebook
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Designing Drop-Down Menus: Examples and Best Practices
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git cheatsheet
These are some git commands that I have had to figure out while learning to use git. Feel free to add more in the comments and I’ll update the post.
Revert a change after it has been pushed to github.
git rebase -i HEAD~1
git push -f origin HEAD^:master
git commit —amend
git push origin master
http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~blynn/gitmagic/ch05.html#_8230_and_then_some
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IP address geolocation SQL database | Share your knowledge!
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Chernobyl Tour - Ecological Tour to Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant
XSS (Cross Site Scripting) Prevention Cheat Sheet - OWASP
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katta - distributed lucene
Ubuntu EC2 - Ubuntu and Debian AMIs for Amazon EC2 - Alestic.com
How would you bundle this AMI - ec2ubuntu | Google Groups
James Gardner » Custom Debian EC2…
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Is anyone using ESI with a lot of traffic?
Varnish config for Twitter
Wikia Varnish Config
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100 Free Useful Applications for Mac, Part I | Tools
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GRC | Ultra High Security Password Generator
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FLARToolKit
Technology used in GE’s augmented reality web microsite, GE.ecomagination.
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MySQL Activity Report
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Improving Magento Performance
It appears that there are quite a few complaints on the forums about Magento being slow and this is probably true with an out of the box installation. There are quite a few things that can be done to improve things and response time in general.
The following shows the before and after times as recorded by Pingdom for http://furoshiki.com/. The initial installation reflected a stock LAMP based...
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Magento Javascript Loading Bug
While looking at Magento performance via Pingdom, I noticed that Pingdom was indicating that a particular URL was not being loaded. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be the Javascript loading php script. Obviously, this is not a good sign so I decided to investigate further.
It turns out that the URL used includes an & that is not properly understood by some HTTP clients...
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40 Beautiful Examples of Vintage and Retro in Web Design
Hash Functions
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SlimAttributes
5 Javascript Chart Alternatives | Steve Reynolds Blog
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6 jQuery Chart Plugins For Your App | Steve Reynolds Blog
Jquery version of Digg Spy
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Dark Roasted Blend: Epic Abandoned Substations and Power Plants
TCP and Linux’ Pluggable Congestion Control Algorithms
Processing Pipeline with Amazon S3, SQS, EC2, Ruby, Rails and…
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50 Inspirational E-Commerce Website Designs | Vandelay Design Blog
murmurhash - MurmurHash 2.0
A very fast FNV hash function for MySQL at Xaprb
20 Useful PHP Components & Tutorials for…
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Nginx Hacking Tips
How to convert Apache HTTPD rewrite rules to Nginx rewrite rules.
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PPA for Tom Liu
php-fpm
Sundry MySQL Scripts and Docs
varnish : simple and fast http acceleration | iPerSec
Nginx + PHP + PHP-FPM on Debian Etch 4.0 :: Yawn
How to remove index.php in…