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Eucalyptus
EUCALYPTUS - Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems - is an open-source software infrastructure for implementing "cloud computing" on clusters. The current interface to EUCALYPTUS is compatible with Amazon's EC2 interface, but the infrastructure is designed to support multiple client-side interfaces. EUCALYPTUS is implemented using commonly-available Linux tools and basic Web-service technologies making it easy to install and maintain.
Racker Hacker » MySQLTuner v0.9.1
MySQLTuner is a high-performance MySQL tuning script written in perl that will provide you with a snapshot of a MySQL server’s health. Based on the statistics gathered, specific recommendations will be provided that will increase a MySQL server’s efficiency and performance. The script gives you automated MySQL tuning that is on the level of what you would receive from a MySQL DBA.
Gnip: We got $h*t to pop
Data Consumers: Poll for new data the moment it exists. Avoid throttling & decrease latency from hours to seconds. Data Providers: Reduce API traffic by an order of magnitude while increasing distribution through aggregators.
Net Perspective Website Design - Based in College Station, Texas - Products - Scroll Follow
Scroll Follow is a simple jQuery plugin that enables a DOM object to follow the page as the user scrolls.
Coding Horror: Maybe Normalizing Isn't Normal
As the old adage goes, normalize until it hurts, denormalize until it works.
InternalDummyConnection - Httpd Wiki
These requests are perfectly normal and you do not, in general, need to worry about them. They can simply be ignored.
stanlemon.net : jgrowl
jGrowl is a jQuery plugin that raises unobtrusive messages within the browser, similar to the way that OS X's Growl Framework works.
Beautiful Soup: We called him Tortoise because he taught us.
Beautiful Soup is an HTML/XML parser for Python that can turn even invalid markup into a parse tree. It provides simple, idiomatic ways of navigating, searching, and modifying the parse tree. It commonly saves programmers hours or days of work. There's also a Ruby port called Rubyful Soup.
CSS Type Set
Oracle Symfony in PHP Minor
A little Perl script that can help with generation of schema.yml can be downloaded here. The script itself is extremely simple and is used like this:
InfoQ: The Complexity Around Simplicity
Highly capable designers have an incentive to choose somewhat more difficult designs to better prove their talent, while less-capable designers have an incentive to choose highly difficult designs to obfuscate their lack of talent, Prof. Siemsen concludes.
Developer Testing: eXtreme Feedback for Software Development
: Six valuable Phing build file refactorings
IPSOJOBS Blog » How to create a simple but powerful CDN with Google App Engine (GAE)
What we want?:
* Create a CDN easy to update and free of charge for static resources (images, css, js)
* Consume as less bandwidth as possible leveraging the If-Modified-Since/Last-Modified/304 Not Modified modeSoundManager 2: Javascript Sound for the Web
SoundManager 2 is an attempt at providing the sound API which Javascript has been missing. It's a Javascript library which wraps and extends Flash's sound capabilities, bringing cross-platform audio functionality to Javascript.
0xDECAFBAD » Queue everything and delight everyone
Sure, the original submission of content can and should be done all at once—just enough to get the content into the user's collection. Then, queue a job for further processing and get out of the way. In fact, just queue one job from the user interface—the processor of that queue can then queue further jobs for all the other individual processing tasks that are likely susceptible to plenty of parallel processing and horizontal scaling.
ratproxy - Google Code
A semi-automated, largely passive web application security audit tool, optimized for an accurate and sensitive detection, and automatic annotation, of potential problems and security-relevant design patterns based on the observation of existing, user-initiated traffic in complex web 2.0 environments.
Home - Pencil Project
The Pencil Project's unique mission is to build a free and opensource tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use.
InfoQ: REST Anti-Patterns
I want to focus on anti-patterns – typical examples of attempted RESTful HTTP usage that create problems and show that someone has attempted, but failed, to adopt REST ideas.
Migrating OOP Libraries and Frameworks to PHP 5.3 - phly, boy, phly
However, while namespaces will hopefully lead to more readable code, particularly code in libraries and frameworks, PHP developers will finally need to start thinking about sane standards for abstract classes and interfaces.
Hierarchical caching - Tobias Schlitt - a passion for php
The new ezcCacheStack class in the eZ Cache component provides an automatic way of realizing this. You simply stack together an arbitrary number of storages. The stack will store every item into all of the stacked caches. You can configure how many items may reside in a storage. A replacement strategy class takes care about purging a certain number items in case a storage runs full. On restore, the stack will fetch the desired item from the topmost cache it is still stored in.
Replacement strategies shipped with the eZ Cache component provide you with 2 well-known cache algorithms: Least Recently Used (LRU) and Least Frequently Used (LFU).
It's Not Just Standing Up: Patterns for Daily Standup Meetings
The daily stand-up meeting (also known as a "daily scrum", a "daily huddle", a "morning roll-call", etc.) is simple to describe: the whole team meets every day for a quick status update. We stand up to keep the meeting short. That's it. But this short definition does not really tell you the subtle details that distinguish a good stand-up from a bad one.
Given the apparent simplicity of stand-ups, I was quite surprised the first time I saw one that wasn't working. It was immediately obvious to me what was wrong but I realised that it was not obvious to the team. I realised that my team was not aware of the underlying principles and details that would allowed them to diagnose and solve problems with stand-ups.
scrumalliance wiki / Scrum Smells
Catalog of Scrum Smells
Tailor - DarcsWiki
Tailor is a tool to migrate or replicate changesets between ArX, Bazaar, Bazaar-NG, CVS, Codeville, Darcs, Git, Mercurial, Monotone, Subversion and Tla repositories.
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The Agile Manager: Market Power Increases Exponentially with IT Velocity
The exponential relationship of power to velocity is similarly evident in the relationship between business competitiveness and IT application development. Specifically, market power should increase exponentially with increases in IT velocity.
http://studios.thoughtworks.com/2008/6/24/metric-driven-management-versus-management-driven-metrics
Three factors undermine this pursuit of precision. The first is the tragedy of the commons: because everyone is responsible for delivering a project, nobody takes responsibility to see that it’s delivered. In this model, no one person is responsible for completing a business requirement from end-to-end; people are responsible for nothing more than working their particular task to completion and then passing it along. The second is a soft definition of what it means to get work done. “Completion” can be relative, interpretive, or simply a matter of working to a state where nobody can say that a technical task isn’t “done.” The third is an increased number of hand-offs. Handoffs create the risk of misunderstanding. Misunderstanding requires rework.
Producing Open Source Software
Producing Open Source Software is a book about the human side of open source development. It describes how successful projects operate, the expectations of users and developers, and the culture of free software. The book is released under an open copyright: it is available in bookstores and from the publisher (O'Reilly Media), or you can browse or download it here
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