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Twitter Link Roundup #60 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

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Useful comparison of Amazon vs. Rackspace clouds & why Mixpanel is moving to EC2 – [link]. Technology expected in homes in 10 years – Scientists unveil moving 3D holograms – [link]. Geologists And Tech Industry Leaders Fear Mineral Trade Wars Imminent – [link]. UK copyright laws to be relaxed.

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5 Infrastructure Tips for Startups

blog.adaptiveblue.com

Ranging from configuration issues to down time, to unresponsiveness of the technical staff. With the previous provider it took days to get to the bottom of the issue, primarily because technical support did not respond quickly enough. To learn more about S3, please read this post on my tech blog. There were constant problems.

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What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

www.kalzumeus.com

They’re being found at breakneck pace right now precisely because they required substantial new security technology to actually exploit, and that new technology has unlocked an exciting new frontier in vulnerability research. The recent bugs were, contrary to some reporting, not particularly trivial to spot.

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Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox, part 1

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Every time the site goes down or degrades (even short blips), write down the start and end times for the outage and then label it with any applicable causes (bad code review, insufficient monitoring, log overflow). Technologies we used. S3/EC2 for storing and serving file blocks. Keeping a downtime log. Pretty standard.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

automatic links to generated images Rietveld - asynchronous code reviews on changesets Tech*if*er0*urs – blog on roadmap for learning rails Best free programming books Project Management Basecamp - web-based project management and collaboration tool. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Guess which technology we have the least trouble with. You have a CEO that clearly hasn’t taken the time to understand a technology platform. who forms technology biases based on old Visual Basic stereotypes or shallow interpretations of. ability based on one of many technologies. March 25, 2011 at 1:36 pm.

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