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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 / mintcache, caching, django, scaling, dogpile

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 / visualwebdeveloperexpress, ie, debugging, microsoft, javascript

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 / tim-bray, rest, urls, uris

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

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

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

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