Splash screen (or splash page) is a front page of a web-site that don’t provide the actual content, but offers visitors some kind of intuition or background information for what the site is about.

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r3 is a Yahoo! open source project (on SourceForge) designed to help developers of web applications customize and translate their web pages and templates for different languages, markets, and uses.

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An attempt to create a default skeleton .htaccess file with the very best apache htaccess examples… Updated frequently based on detailed info from the Apache htaccess tutorial.

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FirePHP allows you to take a deeper look at all the work your PHP code does to generate that page you are currently looking at in your Firefox browser.

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SIP stands for Scilab Image Processing toolbox. SIP intends to do imaging tasks such as filtering, blurring, edge detection, thresholding, histogram manipulation, segmentation, mathematical morphology, color image processing, etc.

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VIPS is a free image processing system. It aims to be about half-way between Photoshop and Excel. It is very bad at retouching photographs, but very handy for the many other imaging tasks that programs like Photoshop get used for.

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Welcome to the memcached wiki

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memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system used by LiveJournal, Facebook, Bloglines and others. Find out how memcached works, how to it set up and how you can scale your website. Presented at YAPC::Europe

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Quercus is Caucho Technology’s 100% Java implementation of PHP 5 released under the Open Source GPL license. Quercus comes with many PHP modules and extensions like PDF, PDO, MySQL, and JSON.

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Quercus is a 100% pure Java implementation of PHP 5. The PHP engine behaves similarly to JSP. There is a PHP Servlet that accepts all requests for .php files. It is responsible for parsing and interpreting the page.

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In July, 2007, Geert Bevin experimented with clustering Drupal with Terracotta running on Caucho’s Quercus, a Java implementation of PHP.

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A Hyperbolic Tree (HT) is a “focus+context” information visualization technique used to display large amount of inter-related data. This technique was originally developed (and patented) at Xerox PARC.

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Marketing Experiments Journal has made a number of A/B tests of landing pages (the pages people land on clicking ads or search result links).

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Funambol Community Edition is free open source software that enables you to synchronize data between mobile devices and backend data sources, and to perform push email.

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Apache JMeter is a 100% pure Java desktop application designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance. It was originally designed for testing Web Applications but has since expanded to other test functions.

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Components for implementing Application Server in PHP5. The goal is to implement various persistent-application protocols.

Currently, the only implemented protocol is SCGI. Near-future plan is FastCGI.

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A superb explanation by Theo Schlossnagle of how to deploy a high availability load balanced system using mod backhand and Wackamole.

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WordPress theme designers have felt that need and have created a number of quality magazine–style themes in response.

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The article describes the basic architecture of a connection-oriented NIO-based java server. It takes a look at a preferred threading model, Java Non-blocking I/O and discusses the basic components of such a server.

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This article describes the basic architecture of a connection-oriented NIO-based server. It takes a look at a preferred threading model and discusses the basic components of such a server.

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Wackamole is an application that helps with making a cluster highly available. It manages a bunch of virtual IPs, that should be available to the outside world at all times.

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To ensure that a service meets the needs of the customer (and not more than that) we use a process called “Working Backwards” in which you start with your customer and work your way backwards until you get to the minimum set of technology requirements

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