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30 Untypical WordPress Sites.

sankuru.biz – A simple bytecode compiler with virtual machine, written in Php, for the EL language.

Set up Your Own Diaspora Pod. Here’s Why the Facebook, Google+, Twitter Alternative is the Best Choice for Business and Personal Use. | Michael L. Aaronson MD: Kidney Doctor.

Microsoft to enable Linux on its Windows Azure cloud in 2012 | ZDNet.

Finagle is a protocol-agnostic, asynchronous RPC system for the JVM that makes it easy to build robust clients and servers in Java, Scala, or any JVM-hosted language. via Twitter Engineering: Finagle: A Protocol-Agnostic RPC System.

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Jeremy Cole, a DBA Team Lead/Database Architect at Twitter, gave a really good talk at the O’Reilly MySQL conference: Big and Small Data at @Twitter, where the topic was thinking of Twitter from the data perspective. via High Scalability – High Scalability – How Twitter Stores 250 Million Tweets a Day Using MySQL.

Using PHP-GTK to serve Web Applications to HTML 5 Browsers – PHP Classes blog – PHP Classes.

WinBinder is a new open source extension for PHP, the script programming language. It allows PHP programmers to easily build native Windows applications. Click here for more information. via WinBinder: The native Windows binding for PHP.

CentOS is a project that many people (myself included) rely on as a way to get all the goodness of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, without the cost (or support – but that’s another story). That’s probably why there was a lot of concern when it took CentOS so very long to put out the 6.0 [...]