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What Does $14 Million Worth of PageRank Look Like?
CircuitCity.com is back after Systemax purchased the brand and domain at bankruptcy auction for $14 million. Systemax also owns TigerDirect.com and acquired CompUSA last year. CircuitCity.com was quickly relaunched last week to capitalize on the remaining brand strength and traffic to the website.
Writing Microcopy
An Interface and Product Design blog by Joshua Porter
Chrome Now Available for Mac or Linux : Hackers Only
In order to get more feedback from developers, we have early developer channel versions of Google Chrome for Mac OS X and Linux , but what...
A brazen ripoff of Twitvid
Now the guys running the knockoff have copied Twitvid's graphic design as well. Here's the site when they first launched,
1 line CSS Grid Framework
Blog about web programming & web design
Djng - a Django powered microframework
djng is nearly two weeks old now, so it’s about time I wrote a bit about the project. I presented a keynote at EuroDjangoCon in Prague earlier this month entitled …
Django tip: Caching and two-phased template rendering
We've launched user accounts at EveryBlock , and we faced the interesting problem of needing to cache entire pages except for the "You're logged in as [username] " bit at the top of the page. For example, the Chicago homepage takes a nontrivial amount of time to generate and doesn't change often -- which means we want…
NYTimes.com Announces Map/Reduce Toolkit
Recently we’ve been exploring the on-demand storage and computation tools offered by Amazon Web Services, along with an open-source toolkit called Apache Hadoop. The result is many computers working together to answer questions about our users.
Speeding up a Rails request by 150ms by changing 1 line
We’re pretty obsessed with performance at Gilt Groupe . You can get a taste for what we’re dealing with, and how we’re dealing with it, from our recent presentation at RailsConf .
REST APIs must be hypertext-driven » Untangled
Posted by Roy T. Fielding under software architecture , web architecture [51] Comments
WebKit gets a new JavaScript profiler courtesy of 280 North (YC W08)
New Profiling and Debugging Tools in WebKit