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    <title>Ma.gnolia: Jackson Miller's Bookmarks</title>
    <dateCreated>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:04:08 -0700</dateCreated>
    <dateModified>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:19:50 -0700</dateModified>
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    <outline type="link" text="PullMonkey Projects: Open Flash Chart Plugin for Ruby on Rails - Graphs" url="http://www.pullmonkey.com/projects/open_flash_chart" htmlUrl="http://www.pullmonkey.com/projects/open_flash_chart" description="Flash charts for Ruby.  I like these charts, but they don't work on mobile devices :(">
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    <outline type="link" text="XML.com: Implementing the Atom Publishing Protocol" url="http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/07/19/implementing-atom-publishing-protocol-python-wsgi.html" htmlUrl="http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/07/19/implementing-atom-publishing-protocol-python-wsgi.html" description="Joe Gregorio's latest Restful Web column implements the Atom Publishing Protocol as a Python web service using WSGI.

(This will be helpful to move jaxn.org over to Google App Engine.  Instead of the Blogger or MetaWebLog API, I think I will implement the Atom API).">
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    <outline type="link" text="Manhattanhenge | Star-Struck Articles | Astronomy Resources | Hayden Planetarium" url="http://haydenplanetarium.org/resources/starstruck/manhattanhenge/" htmlUrl="http://haydenplanetarium.org/resources/starstruck/manhattanhenge/" description="&amp;quot;These two days give you a photogenic view with half the Sun above and half the Sun below the horizon&#8212;on the grid. The day after May 29th (Friday, May 30th), and the day before July 12 (Friday, July 11) will also give you Manhattanhenge moments, but instead you will see the entire ball of the Sun on the horizon&#8212;on the grid. My personal preference is the half-Sun.&amp;quot;">
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    <outline type="link" text="The Britney Spears Problem &#187;  American Scientist " url="http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2008/4/the-britney-spears-problem" htmlUrl="http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2008/4/the-britney-spears-problem" description="">
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    <outline type="link" text="Pentaho First to Bring Business Intelligence Suite to iPhone" url="http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Pentaho-Corporation-876987.html" htmlUrl="http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Pentaho-Corporation-876987.html" description="Pentaho has released a web based iPhone app.  I will check it out, but it is too bad it is not an installed app; iPhone notifications are going to be THE killer feature for BI on the iPhone.">
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    <outline type="link" text="Introducing DataFabric" url="http://blog.fiveruns.com/2008/7/9/introducing-data_fabric" htmlUrl="http://blog.fiveruns.com/2008/7/9/introducing-data_fabric" description="Data sharding in Rails.  I have some custom code that does this, but I might rather use this.">
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    <outline type="link" text="DVPmysqlucFederation at Flickr: Doing Billions of Queries Per Day" url="http://www.scribd.com/doc/2592098/DVPmysqlucFederation-at-Flickr-Doing-Billions-of-Queries-Per-Day" htmlUrl="http://www.scribd.com/doc/2592098/DVPmysqlucFederation-at-Flickr-Doing-Billions-of-Queries-Per-Day" description="Federation at Flickr: Doing
Billions of Queries Per Day  mysql flickr Federation">
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    <outline type="link" text="  Free &amp;amp; Proprietary : Matt&#8217;s Homepage" url="http://mattmaroon.com/?p=400" htmlUrl="http://mattmaroon.com/?p=400" description="&amp;quot;...insulting the Gates foundation&#8217;s work is equivalent to tossing paint at people wearing fur coats, except not hilarious&amp;quot;">
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    <outline type="link" text="Seth's Blog: Let me see" url="http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/07/let-me-see.html" htmlUrl="http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/07/let-me-see.html" description="Seth Godin has a list of ways he would like to be able to sort data on the Kindle.">
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    <outline type="link" text="Balsamiq Mockups Home | Balsamiq" url="http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups" htmlUrl="http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups" description="Wire framing app that I am going to try.">
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    <outline type="link" text="Pothead Ph.D. - Chronicle.com" url="http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2008/07/2008070201c.htm" htmlUrl="http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2008/07/2008070201c.htm" description="An interesting article about drugs and higher education.">
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    <outline type="link" text="camen design &#183; A List Of People Who Need To Stop Writing Software" url="http://camendesign.com/?200806291241" htmlUrl="http://camendesign.com/?200806291241" description="One of the things that is nice about using a Mac (and is more true for Linux) is that there isn't crapware installed. ">
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    <outline type="link" text="Intel: an expensive many-core future is ahead of us " url="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080702-intel-an-expensive-many-core-future-is-ahead-of-us.html" htmlUrl="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080702-intel-an-expensive-many-core-future-is-ahead-of-us.html" description="&amp;quot;Intel and AMD alike have been saying for several years that the days of &amp;quot;free&amp;quot; performance scaling from faster processors are behind us, and that future performance improvements will require software changes to take advantage of the abundance of cores. This clear message that software will need to be able to scale even onto huge numbers of cores isn't unexpected. But it is nonetheless unwelcome. Painful times are undoubtedly ahead.&amp;quot;">
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    <outline type="link" text="Anyvite" url="http://anyvite.com/home" htmlUrl="http://anyvite.com/home" description="Why use Evite when you can use something better?">
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    <outline type="link" text="PHP framework comparison benchmarks | AVNet Labs" url="http://www.avnetlabs.com/php/php-framework-comparison-benchmarks" htmlUrl="http://www.avnetlabs.com/php/php-framework-comparison-benchmarks" description="It looks like Ruby on Rails is considerably faster than the Zend Framework.  Interesting.

Note: Jon Wage has looked at this before and says it is not a very good comparison.">
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    <outline type="link" text="168 Billion reasons to stop using Google Analytics" url="http://www.diorex.com/168-billion-reasons-to-stop-using-google-analytics/" htmlUrl="http://www.diorex.com/168-billion-reasons-to-stop-using-google-analytics/" description="Google Analytics + Adsense + Doubleclick = Google can take your profits.">
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    <outline type="link" text="10.5.4: Why Bother? &#8212; Hotspots" url="http://rixstep.com/2/4/20080701,00.shtml" htmlUrl="http://rixstep.com/2/4/20080701,00.shtml" description="&amp;quot;But there's a backlash on its way and it's already begun. If you listen closely you can hear it coming.&amp;quot;

I agree.">
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    <outline type="link" text="Building a Software Company: How to sell your software for $20,000" url="http://nukemanbill.blogspot.com/2008/06/how-to-sell-your-software-for-20000.html" htmlUrl="http://nukemanbill.blogspot.com/2008/06/how-to-sell-your-software-for-20000.html" description="&amp;quot;The idea is you don't want to try to come up with something new. Every business problem has been thought to death, and if there isn't a product for it already, it's probably because there just isn't a need.

Also with something &amp;quot;new&amp;quot; you have to convince businesses or organizations they need it, and that takes marketing money and extra time overcoming their resistance to a new concept.
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    <outline type="link" text="Tips for Writing Nicer Site Badges - Ed Eliot" url="http://www.ejeliot.com/blog/80" htmlUrl="http://www.ejeliot.com/blog/80" description="">
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    <outline type="link" text="Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site" url="http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html" htmlUrl="http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html" description="Yahoo website performance guidelines.">
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