We were recently contacted by a Qhub creator about a problem he was having with our “Page Design” control in Safari 5 and other webkit browsers. After some debugging I found that webkit browsers were not allowing submission of the form due to a problem with the colorpicker plugin we use. This was the error we were seeing in the console: "An invalid form control with name='' is not focusable." Not...

From http://highscalability.com/scaling-digg-and-other-web-applications, about a Digg presentation at Web 2.0 Expo. Key points: Scale out, not up (ie, more servers, not bigger servers) by partitioning users off Scale databases both horizontally and vertically (eg, split users horizontally, questions on dedicated db) Hide partitioning from the application Problems of denormalization (copies of the...

http://www.grokdotcom.com/2009/02/16/the-missing-google-analytics-manual/ This is a list of links to guidance on linking adwords and other useful statistics into analytics.

Here are my notes from the conference.  Overall it wasn’t as eye-opening as I’d hoped, no concrete strategies or technologies to consider implementing right now. Aral Balkan @aral http://naklab.com (featuring game of life) Recommend Book: ‘The Unthinkable’ http://37signals.com http://flex.org/tour LUA – Alchemy Little Moo : make automated responses a bit more friendly Google AppEngine...

Describes how MediaTemple (shared grid hosting) improved their service over time: Anatomy of Storage on the GRID.

Facebook Toolbox Class from PHPClasses.org

ood post from TechRadar, by Julian M Bucknall. Explains the basics of keyword extraction and using pagerank to order search results. http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/find-out-how-google-indexes-the-web-600281

CVSNT a shared repository (cross-platform). CVS Tortoise works with CVSNT or stand alone on a single machine for a local repository. WampServer would be a good choice for developing locally.

Not only is open source ready for the world’s largest enterprises, it’s ideal for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMB’s) as well. With many SMB’s expanding their operations on a limited budget, the open source option delivers a scalable, reliable and high performance platform that keeps total cost of ownership extremely low. Many SMB’s are realizing significant cost savings by using open...

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