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Sorry Google
in GoogleThe other day I was doing some surfing as googlebot (using firefox’s user agent switcher plugin) to try to debug some weirdly cloaked spammy search results I was seeing. I had accidentally done 3 searches as googlebot when I was redirected to sorry.google.com with this error screen: Odd. Continue Reading
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DIGG: 4000% PERFORMANCE INCREASE BY SORTING IN PHP RATHER THAN MYSQL
To scale at Digg they followed a set of practices very similar to those used at eBay. No joins, no foreign key constraints (to scale writes), primary key look-ups only, limited range queries, and joins were done in memory. When implementing the comment feature a 4,000 percent increase in performance was created by sorting in […] Continue Reading
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iPlayPhone is Free!!
in AppsIn celebration of one year in the app store iPlayPhone is now free!!! [iTunes Link] Continue Reading
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Link Love or Holy Crap Sites Keep Linking iPlayPhone
in AppsI want to shout out a couple of the sites that have been promoting iPlayPhone recently. Matt Howie – creator of metafilter – gave iPlayPhone mention in his roundup of Recommended Kid Games. AssociatedContent – a site I’d never heard of, but one that evidently gets over 24,000,000 visitors per month – ranked iPlayPhone #2 […] Continue Reading
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Most Infuriating Website Error Message Ever
in Websites“If you are … still having problems, please call your cable provider for help.” Good luck with that. Continue Reading