Well finally got around to doing something i’ve been toying with for a while, and it was a lot easier than I was first expecting, admittedly the code is pretty messy, but it’s functional and works.
http://dubdubdub.co.uk/newspapers/
And now add the ‘unique users’ field to the graphs (as a selection)
A little video, thin on detail of course, but hints at some home truths on building/designing scale-able applications (and i’d go so far to say that they are applicable to ALL applications not just webapps)
http://joyent.vo.llnwd.net/o25/videos/LinkedIn-Bumpersticker-LED-Scaling-Rails.m4v
Of course, I know Ben Rockwood like’s his solaris and F5′s – but that’s not going to surprise many (and I just LOVE f5s)
And here’s a blog entry with the details on /how/ that’s done:-
http://www.joyeur.com/2008/04/18/the-wonders-of-fbref-and-irules-serving-pages-from-facebooks-cache
. . . basically as simple as:-
when HTTP_REQUEST {
if { [HTTP::uri] contains "/popular_something/list"} {
HTTP::respond 200 content "<fb:ref handle='[HTTP::uri]'/>"
} else {
pool facebook.application_server_pool
}
}
Spring and snowing – of course this is normal for the time of year – honest! Nothing to do with any change in climate or anything *cough*
Well finally put a few pictures from my Berlin trip up, should have taken my bigger camera though – but the strike by BVG didn’t help near the end of the stay, in the whole I think I liked Dresden more than Berlin – but I can’t really put my finger on why I feel that way.
Anywho, both were very nice – though it was pretty cold 
This little snippet will give you a new little window for all those recent applications you launch – I seem to have picked up a habit for closing applications down when I stop working with them for an hour or two (pages etc.)
defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add \
'{ "tile-data" = { "list-type" = 1; }; "tile-type" = "recents-tile"; }'
killall Dock