his article is the result of my quick dive into the language, and will hopefully serve as a starting point for anyone else who’s been hearing the buzz, but hasn’t taken the plunge yet.

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Twitter started as a side project and blew up fast, going from 0 to millions of page views within a few terrifying months.

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This is a wonderfully informative Amazon update based on Joachim Rohde’s discovery of an interview with Amazon’s CTO.You’ll learn about how Amazon organizes their teams around services,the CAP theorem of building scalable systems,how they deploy software.

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Mailinator is a free no-setup web service for thwarting evil spammers by creating throw-away registration email addresses. If you don’t give web sites you real email address they can’t spam you. They spam Mailinator instead

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Google Talk is Google’s instant communications service. Interestingly the IM messages aren’t the major architectural challenge, handling user presence indications dominate the design.

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Magma is an experimental distributed filesystem for Linux kernels based on libfuse on client side and on a written-from-scratch implementation of distributed hash table on server side.

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In this article I’ll share my experiences in this space and show how my Bubbling Library, combined with YUI’s Custom Event capabilities, can create an unobtrusive behavioral layer suitable for powerful web applications.

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The Javascript Bubbling Library (YUI-CMS) is a set of plugins, behaviors and widgets, for building event-driven web applications using the bubble-up technique.

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I giochi SpinVector a “grandezza naturale” sono installazioni interattive che permettono a gruppi di persone di interagire in modo naturale con proiezioni gestite in tempo reale dal computer.

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As its name suggests, the PHP Extension and Application Repository (PEAR) library called HTML_QuickForm can be used to quickly and cleanly to produce validating HTML forms, relieving the developer of the tedium that often accompanies such tasks.

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