Top 20 Nginx WebServer Best Security Practices. that is a crazy list of stuff.

Riak – A Decentralized, Internet-Scale Data Store. yet another nosql project. lots of ideas from amazon’s dynamo. interesting stuff about how they handle relationships and querying via map-reduce functions.

Facebook Developers | HipHop for PHP: Move Fast. Facebook is open-sourcing a php to c compiler that they said reduced their CPU footprint by 50%. They mention that facebook is doing 400B page views a month. that’s 154K per SECOND.

Engine Yard Cloud Price Reductions | Engine Yard Blog. on small and medium hosts. sweet.

Active Record Query Interface 3.0. lots of syntax changes to activerecord for rails 3.

Luke Melia » Redis in Practice: Who’s Online?. very cool writeup. I had no idea redis could do union operations like that.

Revamped Routes in Rails 3 | Rizwan Reza. i have some pretty nasty route files in my projects. this is a welcome change.

Mongoid. another mongo/ruby library. similar syntax to activerecord.

Why I think Mongo is to Databases what Rails was to Frameworks // RailsTips by John Nunemaker. points out 7 very useful features of mongo.

NoSQL with MySQL in Ruby – Friendly. takes the FriendFeed approach of serializing to json in a single column and using seperate tables to build indexes. there’s a write-up on the author’s website with quite a few question/comments.

Daring Fireball: PastryKit. seems apple has a demo website that uses javascript/css to do fixed-position content in the iphone browser (previously thought to be impossible) and change the default scroll-speed to make it work more like a native app. very interesting.

Amazon EC2 Spot Instances. amazon is auctioning off any spare ec2 capacity on a per-hour basis. talk about commoditization.

mkelly12’s google_closure_compiler – GitHub. rails plugin for optimizing your javascript.

Journal of Eivind Uggedal: VPS Performance Comparison. Linode was the clear winner. EC2 did pretty poorly.

nginx_http_push_module – Comet For The People. it’s cool that the documentation has a live chat window that everyone automatically joins (and is really quite fast).

Business Guys on Business Trips. it’s kinda like “get your war on” for the creative world.

Erland at Facebook. They use erlang for chat. 800+ million user messages / day, 7+ million active channels at peak, 1GB+ in/sec atpeak. crazy.

myronmarston’s mail_safe at master – GitHub. gem for rerouting email in development environments. i’m pretty sure if i just think hard enough, every gem i need just magically appears on github.

Building a Twitter Filter With Sinatra, Redis, and TweetStream. from the title you’d think the article was just autogenerated from popular words on a bunch of ruby rss feeds.

Why do we have an IMG element? [dive into mark]. some great quotes from a html mailing list in 1993 about adding images to html. in summary, “The ones that win are the ones that ship.”