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by _pdeschen 15y ago
gps service? checked! Well kind of. Last summer I did a road trip to newfoundland (canada) with a laptop, a gps and a webcam onboard [1]. The idea was to have people (friends and family) to follow our trip through a website to which I pushe
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by _pdeschen 15y ago
To restrict access to a static web site, providing authentication through this api and nginx auth request module[1]? Not even sure if this specific use case is even possible with this API but that would be nice. That being said, I don't thi
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by _pdeschen 15y ago
I had a similar issue a while back after having a blog post of mine featured on HN front page for some time. The problem is really apache. Either configure apache with workers (which is ain't the default config) or add nginx in front. You m
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by _pdeschen 15y ago
Both Firefox and opera offer pipelining while it is deactivated on chrome (next release will have it on by default).
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by _pdeschen 15y ago
That was exactly my goal when I first experiment with the concepts [1][2]. As far I as I'm concerned, I think this design strategies is just the next logical step. New javascript frameworks [2] [3] geared toward this paradigm are now gettin
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by _pdeschen 15y ago
Speaking of such (which is a valid concern) I always use a nice feature from gmail which gives the ability to append +anything to your username. Mail will be forwarded to your inbox as usual where you can apply filtering to know whom as lea
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Reinventing the Startup Board Meeting: Part 2(m.readwriteweb.com)
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by _pdeschen 15y ago
Given a sitemap.xml, that could be used to index static site without the need for a feed. http://www.sitemaps.org/ Since sitemap is a /standard/ (sic!) document hence no need to reimplement the wheel for true static sites.
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by _pdeschen 15y ago
Yes. Maybe change your sign up button for a get started call to action, allowing one to play around without registration then offer registration as part of the top nav in order save a user state. Something like that.
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by _pdeschen 15y ago
I would get rid of the full text. Create a few sliding banner with h1 headers with one including a sample of how it looks then move explanation details in a separated "How it works page" available as a top nav link.
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by _pdeschen 16y ago
For best quality and selection I use istock. Otherwise so cheap as in 0$ : flickr creative commons ( http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ ) , morgue file ( http://www.morguefile.com/ ) or stock exchange ( http://www.sxc.hu/ )
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by _pdeschen 16y ago
I think using require would do the trick. Something along the line like: /* foo.js / var date = new Date(); exports.Date = date; / bar.js / var foo = require('./foo.js'); exports.Date = foo.Date; / foobar.js */ var foo = require('./foo.
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by _pdeschen 16y ago
I had a blog story running on the front of HN for a couple of hours and my EC2 micro instance just died under the load. Since I didn't expected to have such amount of traffic in the first place, my WordPress installation wasn't optimized at
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by _pdeschen 16y ago
Throw nginx in front :-) http://blog.rassemblr.com/2011/01/wordpress-need-for-speed-o...
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by _pdeschen 16y ago
Part of the library is visual using jquery ui. I don't believe it would work on node unless breaking the ui layer into another library. Then would could have the crunching on nodejs and the ui on the browser. A nice rest API could sit on to
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by _pdeschen 16y ago
Potentially a source for new business initiatives or ventures! I'd like to see more datasets but let say that's a nice start for now.
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Canada's Open Data Pilot Project(data.gc.ca)
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WordPress Need For Speed: Optimization with nginx Caching(blog.rassemblr.com)
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by _pdeschen 16y ago
Agree. I had to optimize my wordpress installation recently including some caching. Since there is not that much information about nginx, I took some notes and wrote about it. Here is my blog post: http://blog.rassemblr.com/2011/01/wordpre
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by _pdeschen 16y ago
Nice list. You could also add Scalatra https://github.com/scalatra/scalatra a Sinatra-like (ruby) framework.
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by _pdeschen 16y ago
According to press release “We’re working with AWS to provide an Elastic Beanstalk Ruby on Rails container that leverages the optimized Engine Yard stack which has been battle-tested by thousands of high-growth companies.” John Dillon, CEO
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by _pdeschen 16y ago
Thanks. Those all valid points but has mentioned in the post, your millage may vary. Now regarding your point about the recipient (firstname, lastname): coming from a different culture myself (fr-CA), I truly understand your concern. In Fre
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User Registration Follow-up Email: A Check List(blog.rassemblr.com)
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Nginx Location-based Reverse-Proxy in Front of Apache(blog.rassemblr.com)
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by _pdeschen 16y ago
For those interested in IVR monitoring services, you should check my recent blog post where I describe what should be in a good monitoring report. What’s in your IVR application monitoring report? http://blog.nuecho.com/2010/12/14/whats-in
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What’s in your IVR application monitoring report?(blog.nuecho.com)
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by _pdeschen 16y ago
Disclaimer: I'm one of Nu echo's founders and lead architect for our IVR testing and monitoring tool suite (NuBot and Mirador). Thanks Adam, That is surely yet another point in favor of Tropo. They test. Using our NuBot Platform, we have lo
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by _pdeschen 16y ago
Disclaimer: I'm one of Nu echo's founders and lead architect for our IVR testing and monitoring tool suite (NuBot and Mirador). Our Mirador IVR application monitoring service is exactly what you are looking for. It is one thing to regularly
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What about Dynamic DNS update behind a router?(blog.rassemblr.com)
1 points by _pdeschen 16y ago|0 comments