Categories
Link Dump

Link Dump 2005-02-11

Yahoo! Search Tips for Webmasters: Saving Bandwidth: Some great tips on what you can do minimize the impact Slurp (Yahoo’s web spider) has your site. This is a great example of what Yahoo and Google should be putting up on their blog from time to time. You could certainly have found this information else where, but there is something to be said for getting it straight from the horses mouth.

Flickr Central Color Picker: The folks over at Flickr have been doing great stuff with Flash (via JeremY!).

pgpool: Pool connections to back end PostgreSQL servers. Looks like it has recently added some replication and fail over abilities also.

Two-Finger Scrolling with Pre-2005 PowerBooks: Ha Ha! Looks like my PowerBook should be able to support this hacked up mouse drive to add two-finger scrolling (which the new PowerBook and iBooks have). I’ll have to give this a try at some point.

MySQL: Upgrading MySQL 4.0 to 4.1: Somethings to keep in might that might get your burned after this upgrade.

Why We Use PostgreSQL For Web Application Development: Nice little write on why PostgreSQL should be your choice for web apps.

Unobtrusive Javascript: Nice guide for how Javascript should be used. It certainly should never be depended on. Oh, unless you are Google Maps (via Keith).

How to make a Beastie flag: This guy had his mom do a (huge) cross stitch of the BSD daemon. Wow.

Calorie King: Look up the depressing information about your favorite foods.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *