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You have to take into consideration developer time, because often you are paying more for your staff than for your servers. Python and Ruby applications are known (unsourced) to ha…

My issue with CouchDB is the basic approach. Instead of maintaining indexes, the goal of CoachDB is to pre-cache all search functions with the actual result, for all records. This …

I think the key to recovering from over-commitment is to increase your rates. If you are over-committed, you are giving away your time for too little money.

We are using Softlayer and we found that on our server we were not bottlenecked by memory, CPU or disk I/O. However, we were bottlenecked by our bandwidth which sat around 5 MB/s. …

Thanks. I'll be checking this out, although I was hoping they would also have something equivalent to jQuery's Sortable ( http://jqueryui.com/demos/sortable/ ).

I'm having a hard time nailing down what the killer features are here. For example, I saw that they advertise drag-and-drop with support for touch devices, but I couldn't even find…

I do a lot of near-pixel-for-pixel reproduction from Photoshop documents, and I find that using rule nesting, mixins and child selectors (a similar style to the final example from …

I think this is where the mantra, "Those who cannot do, teach," comes from.

There is already a github mirror: https://github.com/php/php-src

I wonder how hard it is to open source a Google product. I imagine that Google's products are heavily tied in to its proprietary solutions like BigTable.

I would add a page on the site to view the source for the mixins.

My first thought here is that fast food chains will try and pick this up to cut costs, it can be grown cheaper than farming.

EC2 has had some issues in the past, but did those issues affect S3? Even if you're on linode, you might find sending large binaries to S3 is a cost-efficient way to increase your …

I would encourage you to consider sending people to a completely new URL instead of loading the lyrics with Ajax, unless the browser supports the HTML5 History API. That way, peopl…

Is there any connection to be made between this article and the usage of signed cookies to hold session state? Database-backed sessions hold a state that you know your application …