Gearman is a system to farm out work to other machines, dispatching function calls to machines that are better suited to do work, to do work in parallel, to load balance lots of function calls, or to call functions between languages.

(tags: cluster clustering concurrency distributed grid client perl scaling gearman server development queue)

This page provides a step-by-step tutorial for getting up and running with ActionScript and Flare.

(tags: 3d actionscript graphics flash flare as3 visualization)

Flare is a collection of ActionScript 3 classes for building a wide variety of interactive visualizations. For example, flare can be used to build basic charts, complex animations, network diagrams, treemaps, and more.

(tags: actionscript as3 flash visualization library flex graphics charts animation)

This the Chiron Filesystem. It is a Fuse based filesystem. It’s main purpose is to guarantee filesystem availability using replication. But it isn’t a RAID implementation. RAID replicates DEVICES not FILESYSTEMS.

(tags: availability distributed filesystem filesystems replication scaling storage fuse linux)

I deactivated and deleted the feedsmith plugin and instead came up with this .htaccess mod_rewrite code, which does a better job redirecting ALL feeds, and even issues a 307 temporary redirect.

(tags: htaccess mod_rewrite plugin redirect feeds rss feedburner apache)

Over the last year or so at Fog Creek we’ve been developing a system that’s so easy even our grouchiest developers are willing to go along with it. And as far as we can tell, it produces extremely reliable schedules.

(tags: advice agile article coding consulting scheduling management software development productivity planning projectmanagement project-management estimation methodology programming)

SWFObject is a small Javascript file used for embedding Adobe Flash content. The script can detect the Flash plug-in in all major web browsers (on Mac and PC) and is designed to make embedding Flash movies as easy as possible.

(tags: accessibility actionscript ajax article audio flash javascript swfobject embed flashobject)

Below you’ll find a list of the sites I’ve visited to learn more about Javascript and CSS compression.

(tags: article compression css javascript optimization performance)

This series of three articles discusses many of the server configuration items that can make or break an application’s performance.

(tags: apache lamp php mysql optimization performance best-practices articles)

While Google and its ilk are virtually omniscient, the Web’s mighty search engines aren’t well suited to every site. If your site content is highly specialized or distinctly categorized, use Sphinx and PHP to create a finely tuned local search system.

(tags: database fulltext howto index indexing lucene mysql php search sphinx tutorial search-engine)

This tutorial is for developers and IT professionals that would like to use the Apache Solr enterprise search server as an enterprise-class search engine for the company intranet or other demanding search engine applications.

(tags: apache php solr lucene search)

Facebook Platform for Mobile allows applications to integrate with and leverage Facebook’s core mobile services.

(tags: api development facebook mobile platform socialnetworking sms)