Monthly Archives: February 2009

How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data – Bret Taylor’s blog

How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data – Bret Taylor’s blog – Their decision to plan for write failures and optimize around it reminds me of how Google built infrastructure around expected hardware failures.

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The Book Meme 2009

“In a 60-page directive, Reinhard Heydrich aimed at a thorough review of all security procedures, to sharpen awareness and root out complacency.” From Killing Hitler: The Plots, The Assassins, and the Dictator Who Cheated Death **The meme** * Grab the … Continue reading

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WP Super Cache and Mobile Press: two great tastes

[WP Super Cache](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/) just upgraded to [version 0.9](http://ocaoimh.ie/2009/01/27/wp-super-cache-09/) and it finally works well with mobile-specific template plugins like [MobilePress](http://mobilepress.co.za/). Just download and enable both, then go to Settings -> WP Super Cache and check the “Mobile device support” checkbox.

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Non-Hierarchical Management

These are my links for February 21st from 08:14 to 08:14 Continue reading

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Forget Micropayments — Here’s a Far Better Idea for Monetizing Content

These are my links for February 12th from 09:21 to 09:21 Continue reading

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