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From FOWA : Scaling Web Applications
There's no way we could summarize everything Matt said on the how and why behind scaling Wordpress.com but, here are a few (rough) notes:
- Do the easy things first. For example, before throwing more hardware at your application, try building a proxy wall with Squid.
- Wp-Cache can do quite a bit for mid-scale blogs. (We recommended WP-Cache on The Squadcast in episode 11)
- Really large scale applications can't live without Memcached.
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With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
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kingkool68 said 3:18PM on 2-29-2008
I love hearing Matt Mullenweg speak. His SXSW presentation about communities was excellent!
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Grant Robertson said 3:19PM on 2-29-2008
We're interviewing him for The Squadcast sometime next week. He was a fantastic speaker, had the crowd in his hand.
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