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High-Traffic Web Sites and Scalability Strategies

I was writing on a Startupping thread about scalability and figured I could reproduce some of what I wrote here. The topic was about planning and dealing with having to […]

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Written by DevelopmentNow -- May 20, 2007
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Ning for Fast Social Networks like GeekBuddy

FYI I started up a new VSN on Ning called GeekBuddy. You can find it at geekbuddy.ning.com. I built it mostly to learn more about the Ning platform, since I […]

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Written by DevelopmentNow -- May 18, 2007
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Hosted Wikis

I’ve been doing some work with full-text searching in MySQL lately & came across a few solutions that could really use a wiki. So I wanted to recommend a free, […]

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Written by DevelopmentNow -- May 1, 2007
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WYSIWYG editor in minutes

FYI, TinyMCE is a nice little editor that makes it super easy to turn a regular textbox into a WYSIWYG HTML editor. You can play with a demo and see […]

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Written by DevelopmentNow -- February 16, 2007
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jQuery for javascript effects

I’ve been playing more with jQuery lately and enjoying it. It’s small, quick, cross-browser, CSS-compliant, and won’t conflict with any other javascript libraries (including ASP.NET AJAX). There are also a […]

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Written by DevelopmentNow -- February 16, 2007
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Making a Basic Web Site on the Cheap

One day, a friend asks you if you could help them make a simple web site. Your friend said it would be great if it could include things like a blog, […]

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Written by DevelopmentNow -- February 13, 2007
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Generate Cool Rounded Corners for Your Site

Ok, I’m not a designer, I’m a developer. So tips that are new to me are often old hat to my designer friends. Nonetheless, I put tips out in hopes […]

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Written by DevelopmentNow -- January 31, 2007