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Vinyl Cache (formerly known as “Varnish Cache”) is a web application accelerator also known as a caching HTTP reverse proxy. You install it in front of any server that speaks HTTP and configure it to cache the contents. Vinyl Cache is really, really fast. It typically speeds up delivery with a factor of 300-1000×…
At CloudFlare, Nginx is at the core of what we do. It is part of the underlying foundation of our reverse proxy service. In addition to the built-in Nginx functionalities, we use an array of custom C modules...
One of the very first ideas we had for this blog was to convert some of the wonderful gems of the early era of our site, the undisciplined period, to blog posts. Questions that were once enthusiastically received by the community, but no longer fit Programmer’s scope.
AngularJS lets you write web applications as if you had a smarter browser. It lets you extend HTML's syntax to express your application's components clearly and succinctly and lets use standard HTML as your template language. And it automatically synchronizes data from your UI (view) with your JavaScript objects…
Sencha Touch 2.0 is built for amazing apps, delivering a faster core, improved performance, and powerful tools for mobile app development.
My first foray into Agile was with a product team back in 2004-2005. It was my first “real” job out of college, and my first experience with a death march. During the death march, I was struck on how bad the idea of death marching was. Working weekends, long hours etc. were a sign of failure not on the development…
Ever watch someone else type at a shell, spelling out every filename, even...
Use an agent skill to prepare your existing .NET MAUI app for Xcode 27, with the scene lifecycle changes and manual migration steps explained.
The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.
We’ve released RethinkDB 1.3 ( Metropolis ) which has a large number of enhancements, and adds support for OS X and several other platforms. As of the 1.3 release, the server can now be installed on the following platforms:
Last year was quite successful for PyPy fundraising through the Software Freedom Conservancy , and Conservancy and PyPy are very excited to ...
Firefox 15 prevents most memory leaks caused by add-ons, including Firebug. For many users with add-ons installed this will significantly reduce Firefox’s memory consumption, without requiring upgrades to those add-ons.
We're pleased to announce the 2.0 beta 1 release of PyPy. This release is not a typical beta, in a sense the stability is the same or bette...
The Corner is Square's technical blog covering software engineering, APIs, data, open source and more.
News & blog about Learn Enough (including the Ruby on Rails Tutorial)
