Google’s Linux software repositories make it easier to download and stay up-to-date with current releases of Google Linux applications.
Digg uses Debian GNU/Linux across the board with a mixture of MySQL, Memcached, MogileFS, Python, PHP, Apache, Gearman and various appliances to serve up billions of requests a month.
Via: Digg Blog
Looking at templates for forms in Django http://linkbun.ch/1gns
A few new habits can make the difference between staying on task, finding what you need and getting things done — or having a tech meltdown.
Dave Shea has written a very good article on creating CSS sprites with JavaScript (JQuery mainly) on ALA. Certainly worth a read! http://www.alistapart.com/articles/sprites2
Thrift is cross-language serialization and RPC framework. It combines a powerful software stack with a code generation engine to build services that work efficiently and seamlessly between C++, Java, Python, PHP, Ruby, C#, Erlang, Perl, and several other languages. Thrift was originally developed at Facebook and open-sourced in April, 2007. Thrift entered the Apache Incubator [...]
Google has released a Cookbook for Google App Engine http://appengine-cookbook.appspot.com/ Has quite a few useful recipes already
With addSizes.js, you can quickly display file size to a linked document, also display the type of file the link targets, for example, when linking to pdfs, mp3s or Word documents.
We’re all for Amazon AWS but this one — Cloud computing: A catchphrase in puberty — is a real-funny read. I enjoyed it thoroughly.
Some of the basic and must-know commands about Git, an open source version control system designed to handle very large projects with speed and efficiency, but just as well suited for small personal repositories;
Thomas Brox have a nice article on how to setup Persistent Django on Amazon EC2 and the newly public EBS (Elastic Block Store).