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Using mmap as a way of evented / non-blocking reads and writes. - Mike Davies

The elements and their positioning in what makes an effective squeeze page. Quite a remarkable distance from the internet marketer book-length fat squeeze pages. (starts about 10 minutes in) - Mike Davies

Collection of useful command line tools, from twitter clients to network monitors to GTD tools. - Mike Davies

Lays out a simple architecture of using nginx as a reverse proxy to handle and hold the large number of connections, thus Apache is only talking to nginx as much as it can comfortably handle - Mike Davies

An interesting talk about how the facebook code evolved to deal with its scaling and performance issues, using patterns like Prepared Statements to minimise/batch queries. - Mike Davies

A list of DSL Patterns from Martin Fowler's Domain Specific Languages book. One page per Pattern. - Mike Davies

Animated visual representations of how standard data structures work. Handy for understanding their implementation - Mike Davies

Modern Perl free book, also offers downloads as PDF, ePub and mobi. - Mike Davies

List of cloud platforms by language. - Mike Davies

Interesting approach to startups acquiring domain names. Allocating up to $50K for a domain name, for an incubator project. Wowsers. - Mike Davies

Interesting difference between coding from the start against investing time exploring an idea. - Mike Davies

Interesting point about the usefulness/importance of having an about page: adding credibility or a name to a site. - Mike Davies

List of useful and helpful features of emacs, around getting to grips and configuring the editing environment - Mike Davies

Online version of the Apress title Practical Common Lisp - Mike Davies

Online version of Digital Press Common Lisp the Language, written by Guy Steele - Mike Davies

List of large datasets open to the public. - Mike Davies

Documentary about the first Kasparov vs Deep Thought match with commentary from both sides, including Robert Byrne, Ken Thompson, Maxim Dlugy, Shelby Lyman. - Mike Davies

rainy day, you are under advisement. - Mike Davies

Wrapping a method that takes a variable number of arguments with apply so that it takes an array of elements too. - Mike Davies

A one-liner apt-get that installs the user-space microcode BIOS upgrade for Atom netbooks (like the Acer Aspire One) - Mike Davies

A command line script wrapper for Perl LWP for easy REST requests to servers. Useful for debugging. - Mike Davies

So, just trying to prove the point that yes, 64MB is more than enough to host 18 static sites - Mike Davies

well honed BASH voodoo skills - Mike Davies

The nginx web server is a fast, lightweight server designed to efficiently handle the needs of both low and high traffic websites. Although commonly used to serve static content, it's quite capable of handling dynamic pages as well. This guide will help you get nginx up and running with PHP and FastCGI on your Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid) Linux VPS. - Mike Davies

there’s no reason Nginx shouldn’t be able to process its own PHP requests and serve static files at the same time. In fact, Nginx does a damn good job of processing PHP requests, especially when using PHP-FPM. - Mike Davies

A guide for how to support and encourage developers to your API or other development offerings. - Mike Davies

Configuring Apache by turning off KeepAlive and adjusting prefork settings to something lower - Mike Davies

Big list of resources and articles about extracting text from HTML documents - Mike Davies

rack-sized Atom CPU powered servers. A dual Atom server consuming only 9W of power. - Mike Davies

Although an Atom chip is about a third less powerful than a typical entry-level server it consumes a fifth less electricity. - Mike Davies