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MySQL tuning
Tuning this puppy is fun. Changing the magic variables often has strange effects, so you need to be anal about dealing with the metrics.
Pooka: Java Email Client
This is why Swing gets a bad name, when you get UIs like this for an email client.
Google Debuts Official eBay Gadget
Looks like a nice one. I love the reader gadget, they did an amazing job to get so much functionality into a small space.
Kamen Lisp in Firefox
(dom document "getElementById" "input") (via '(Dean Edwards))
Twitter trouble
Wow, no wonder Twitter is so slow. Your users don't care how fun it is to develop in Rails, they want you to cache the hell out of it and make it usable :) There is room to really innovate here with a rich messaging system. stomp.
Media Biz Apple changes its iTune?
iTunes + monthly subscription - DRM = I would buy (until now I haven't bought a single thing from the iTunes store)
DHH Responds to Stateful Web Applications Row
I don't a "row" here. Avi and DHH respect each other and it shows. Avi has done good work with Ruby in the past, along with his great smalltalk work. There is room for both views in the big ol' web.