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I think you're on the home page. For an example, you can see my personal tag playlist named 'mellow': http://www.thesixtyone.com/tags/song/show/sam/mellow/ Or go to your profile an…

If the site isn't taken down during an update, some parts of it will always be broken during a schema migration since our ORM expects each table corresponding to a data model to be…

Actually we're on postgres... It just makes me nervous when the migration is taking upwards of 10 minutes to complete since some of our tables have millions of rows and lots of con…

That's reassuring, I thought I was the only crazy fool who was storing json objects in database columns =). We do something similar for some of our data models at thesixtyone.com. …

If you have an account, you can access your recently played history by going to your profile and then hitting the music tab. We're also working on an easier way to access your play…

One killer for me is that GAE doesn't support running scripts outside of web requests. Webapps need cronjobs to do things like sync or cleanup data, populate news feeds, perform an…

You store the password hashed with a salt in the database (just keep track of the salt you used). The server can send the salt to the client, in addition to the random number. So t…

There are still ways to add a little extra security for non-ssl logins. One way is by hashing the password via javascript with a random number provided by the server before posting…

As a web app developer, I've found memory to be the greatest bottleneck for both web and database servers. But this will no doubt be useful for sites like animoto that need to do a…

Seems like this script does a top level document search for nodes to apply it's PNG fix. This can really hurt performance for sites that have complicated layouts. Sometimes it's be…

Let me get this straight. So you would choose the framework with slightly better plugin support and larger community even if it meant it was three times slower and consumed twice a…

Haven't read the whole thing over, but they make no mention of performance comparisons in the conclusion. How could you miss that!

This issue should be fixed now (I was able to reproduce the bug after installing the debugging libraries that come with flex.)

The sound doesn't play in Ubuntu for some reason. That's something we're trying to fix. You should be able to watch videos however.

Hi. Thanks for finding our startup :)

jesusphreak has a pretty good writeup that's worth reading on the pros of using django: http://jesusphreak.infogami.com/blog/why_django Having come from a rails background and late…

Well, ProjectWedding.com was designed by women and it is steadily growing (it currently receives 10,000 page views a day from northern california bride-to-bes). It's assumptions li…