This HOWTO explains how, given your database, a PDF form, Ruby on Rails, plus a few other things, you can produce filled-out PDF documents. This assumes Debian/Ubuntu.

(tags: generator howto rails ruby rubyonrails pdf linux inkscape)

Smugmug.com a 5 year old company with just 23 employees has 315000 paying customers and 195 million photographs. CEO & “Chief Geek” Don MacAskill has a nice set of slides where he talks about its 5 year journey during which it went from small startup

(tags: scalable scalability smugmug aws s3 ec2 storage amazon webservices)