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Dec 02

• Consensus Protocols: Two-Phase Commit at Paper Trail
  Start of some interesting-appearing articles on two-phase commit and distributed systems. Putting here to read later.
• Home — nitrogen — GitHub
  

Dec 01

• Suspend Mark-To-Market Now! - Forbes.com
  Op-ed piece in Forbes by Newt Gingrich on mark-to-market
• FT.com / Home UK / UK - True impact of mark-to-market accounting in the credit crisis
  Some coverage on how mark-to-market makes bubbles worse

Nov 23

• Give Up and Use Tables
  If you're wasting time fighting with CSS -- and we know you are -- we've got just the tool you need. Download the Give Up and Use Tables timer. We've scientifically determined the maximum amount of time that you should need to make a layout work in CSS: it's 47 minutes. When your time is up, we'll even give you the table code you need. Take three minutes to build a table. And ten minutes to get a donut. Bill the client for an hour. Done.

Nov 14

• The End of Wall Street's Boom - National Business News - Print - Portfolio.com
  "By the spring of 2005, FrontPoint was fairly convinced that something was very screwed up not merely in a handful of companies but in the financial underpinnings of the entire U.S. mortgage market. In 2000, there had been $130 billion in subprime mortgage lending, with $55 billion of that repackaged as mortgage bonds. But in 2005, there was $625 billion in subprime mortgage loans, $507 billion of which found its way into mortgage bonds."

Nov 12

• How To Quickly Set Up Ubuntu 8.04 loaded with Erlang, Mochiweb and Nginx | BeeBuzz
  
• Tenerife Skunkworks: The OpenPoker scalability challenge
  The OpenPoker scalability challenge I spent the past few weeks slaving over a new version of OpenPoker and after a few rewrites I can safely say that this is the greatest and most scalable poker server ever! How scalable? I don't know but you can tell me!
• A Million-user Comet Application with Mochiweb, Part 1 | Richard Jones, Esq.
  In this series I will detail what I found out empirically about how mochiweb performs with lots of open connections, and show how to build a comet application using mochiweb, where each mochiweb connection is registered with a router which dispatches messages to various users. We end up with a working application that can cope with a million concurrent connections, and crucially, knowing how much RAM we need to make it work. In part one: * Build a basic comet mochiweb app that sends clients a message every 10 seconds. * Tune the Linux kernel to handle lots of TCP connections * Build a flood-testing tool to open lots of connections (ye olde C10k test) * Examine how much memory this requires per connection. Future posts in this series will cover how to build a real message routing system, additional tricks to reduce memory usage, and more testing with 100k and 1m concurrent connections.

Nov 09

• SuperfolderK28: 15 Tools to Help You Develop Faster Web Pages
  There are a bunch of tools in here that look interesting, such as cuzillion, plus a bunch of load and stress testing tools