Hey there, glad you’r back. I’m in transition phase here and few links to images are broken etc. I’ll get them fixed asap, don’t worry. After all, content is what matters, right. Happy reading.

And as Paco Underhill has written, make the aisles of your store wide enough that shoppers can browse without getting their butts brushed by other shoppers. (author: Seth’s Godin) I think we can train ourselves to associate certain places with certain outcomes. There’s a reason they built those cathedrals and why you are conforatble working [...]

Image via CrunchBase This article is sum of the things a good social site should have. It’s from my yestarday post with Joels video. You can watch that here. Voting: Copied from Reddit, via Digg, voting allows people to vote up answers they think are good. Stack Overflow tweaked its voting algorithm, giving the person [...]

Picture that! A collaborative site that runs on two servers, is managed by four people, and has attracted a third of its target demographic within six months of launch. A site that has had 800,000 posts submitted by its users in its short lifetime and has 16 million pageviews/month – and growing. As we move [...]

Image via Wikipedia Our impulses are often contradictory – the shopaholic versus the wise spender, the exercise fiend versus the couch potato – but we can control which one prevails! The things you want now might not be so desirable in a month’s time. What I did not realise was how sharply it would bring into [...]

Image via Wikipedia It’s a largely unquestioned plank of what passes for self-help wisdom that you should cut “toxic people” out of your life. Get rid of losers and Energy Vampires; surround yourself, instead, with upbeat high-achievers who’ll motivate you to match their success. Know someone crippled by low self-esteem, convinced nobody likes her? Stop [...]

Great presentation and overview about Memory & Swap space management, Synchronous I/O, Filesystem and I/O Scheduler and some userfull commands and tools (iostat, mpstat, oprofile, System Tap, gdb) Linux performance tuning & stabilization tips (mysqlconf2010)View more presentations from Yoshinori Matsunobu

Yoshinori has done great job here! I was looking for some articles that would tell me how far can I push MySql on commodity server when stumbled onto this article. It’s a must read for all you sql guys(chicks for that matter) out there Most of high scale web applications use MySQL + memcached. Many [...]

Image via Wikipedia For me, the ability to see news-related links and commentary shared by people I follow, and whose opinions I respect, is infinitely more desirable than a service that picks things it thinks I will like via some algorithm, or even the RSS reader that I have fine-tuned but now spend very little [...]

These are my notes from this podcast. It’s great interview. Why he selected and continues to use WordPress As of June 2010 when the podcast was made, Mashable still wasn’t using Wordpress 3.0. They used some customizations on their install (like custom post types) that in new version od WP3.0 comes nativly supported. It takes them [...]