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Defensive programming practices to survive Web site traffic peaks

8 tips for dealing with getting 'Digg'ed:Avoid accessing databasesCache Web pagesAvoid needless personalizationQueue tasks that may take too longMove [...]

Square traffic lights

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Wolfram Alpha

Kottke asks for nothing

After a year of living off his readers Kottke decided that because he hadn'tgrown traffic enough or developed a sufficient cult of personality to m [...]

Design Charts

Alexa Page Rank Widget

After reading this post about how this guy added the Alexa Page Rank Widget to his blog and saw his page rank drop (the lower the better you see) sign [...]

Alexa page rank widget

About 10 weeks ago I added the Alexa Page Rank widget to this site to see if my ranking would increase, in accordance with the rumours. After an initi [...]

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Optimo Car Mix

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nooked

A face to a URL

What's just as important as the font face used on a website?If you're like me, when you hear a new band on the radio you want to know what they look [...]

I'm being bullied

Mention the term bullying and the majority of people will think of some unhappy school kid getting picked on by some other (equally unhappy) school ki [...]

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