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Wednesday, 2nd May 2007

MintCache for Django. Caching scheme for Django that solves the dog-pile effect, where high traffic causes many processes to regenerate stale cached data at the same time.

# 8:49 am / caching, django, dogpile, mintcache, scaling

How to debug JavaScript with Visual Web Developer Express. Microsoft’s best kept secret: a decent free debugger for Internet Explorer that doesn’t require you to install Microsoft Office.

# 2:06 pm / debugging, ie, javascript, microsoft, visualwebdeveloperexpress

People don't recognize how important URIs are. The notion that you have a huge, world-scale, information space, and that everything in it has an name and they're all just short strings that you can paint on the side of a bus; that's a new thing and a good thing.

Tim Bray

# 8:23 pm / rest, tim-bray, uris, urls

Silly season. Mark expresses exactly what I’ve been thinking. The fawning over Silverlight and Apollo is incredibly short sighted.

# 8:29 pm / apollo, mark-pilgrim, silverlight

Django Internships at the Journal-World. The Journal-World is an amazing place to start your career.

# 9:54 pm / django, intership, jacob-kaplan-moss, lawrence-journal-world