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Tuesday, 17th June 2008

How not to apply for a job. Quite reasonably, 37signals care if job applicants get their wordmark right. Having worked for Yahoo! I know how important that ! is. What really winds me up is companies that aren’t consistent with name capitalisation across their own sites—many startups are guilty of this.

# 8:22 am / 37-signals, jobs, spelling, wordmark, yahoo

New foundation for Django. Django now has its own nonprofit software foundation (courtesy of a bunch of tough paperwork by Jacob Kaplan-Moss), and fittingly the Lawrence-Journal World get the exclusive.

# 5:16 pm / django, jacob-kaplan-moss, ljworld, python, dsf

Scaling your website with the Perlbal web server (PDF) (via) Perlbal documentation is pretty thin on the ground; this is a really useful introduction from Frank Wiles.

# 10:39 pm / frank-wiles, load-balancing, pdf, perlbal

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