Weathering heavy traffic with WordPress and Turbocharged | Turbocharged
tracy — Wed, 05/02/2007 - 09:25
A decent article on how to handle the digg effect or being slashdotted.
Google Operating System: iGoogle Gadget Maker
tracy — Tue, 05/01/2007 - 10:36
The customized google homepage is now iGoogle and they have tools for creating your own widgets.
Sexual Threats Stifle Some Female Bloggers - washingtonpost.com
tracy — Mon, 04/30/2007 - 17:31
Yahoo! UI Library (YUI)
tracy — Mon, 04/30/2007 - 13:57
The Yahoo! UI Library has some very useful features. In particular, check out the three css tools, CSS Grids, CSS Fonts, CSS Reset. The last two help with standardizing your CSS across browsers while the first helps set up the page template with columns
The Travails of Tracking Web Traffic
tracy — Mon, 04/30/2007 - 13:20
The Potential for Airline Ticket Refunds
tracy — Sun, 04/29/2007 - 00:00
Many airlines have a "guaranteed airfare rule" where if the price of your ticket is lowered after you purchase it, you can request a refund of the difference. Soon a new startup will continue tracking prices for your flight after you purchase it and alert you to any price drops.
More information can be found in Business 2.0's Startup Watch.
Otters Holding Hands
tracy — Thu, 04/26/2007 - 08:17
How Digg.com uses the LAMP stack to scale upward
tracy — Wed, 04/25/2007 - 15:19
Computer World had a great article about how Digg.com uses several features of their LAMP architecture to scale their site. In particular, pay attention to the caching and sharding of data.read more | digg story
Crushpad Custom Winery
tracy — Thu, 04/19/2007 - 08:40
Crushpad is a custom winery in San Francisco, CA. They enable individuals and restaurants to come up with custom wines by purchasing grapes for customers, aiding the customers in coming up with custom blends, and bottling and shipping the wine to the customers. In addition, they create several barrels that customers can later adopt if they come in after the most recent harvest. While it's not cheap (barrel adoption is between $5,000 and $10,000 a barrel), it's a lot cheaper than owning your own winery.
