Sometimes you just need a cheap Linux shell account to do performance tests. That’s Sh3lls.net: you get a Unix shell account for $3 a month. It’s not a full-on VPS or dedicated server, but if you just need to know the ping times to a server from a certain location, it should do.
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Yes, there are snarky programmers’ blogs other than Digitivity. A programmer in NYC has a blog called Dead Programmers’ Cafe at http://www.deadprogrammer.com/. Yeah, he’s written about dead programmers, though that’s not the main focus of the blog, which seems to be interesting or not so interesting stuff happening around New York City.
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Twilio is a cloud-based PBX and phone service.
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There’s a free download of a book on Drupal SEO available at the link above. It’s excerpts out of the book “Drupal 6 Search Engine Optimization”, published by Packt.
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GoGrid is a cloud server host (like Rackspace and Amazon Elastic Compute Cluster). It’s possible it might be more expensive than Rackspace on some measures, but it offers one big benefit: free incoming bandwidth. So if your application sucks up huge quantities of data and processes it, you would benefit from this.
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This is an interesting podcast on increasing digital productivity.
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If you’re looking for an autoposting plugin for WordPress, I found one called Autoblogged while research auto-scheduling plugins. It takes RSS feeds as input, and after applying filters and rules you specify, it posts the results as blog entries on your WordPress blog.
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This is a neat web-based customer service system that allows you (and anyone in your entire company, not just support staff) respond to customer questions, regardless of the source: email, Twitter post, Facebook, etc.
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Remember the iconic Obama poster which became emblematic of the “change” theme during the 2008 presidential election?
Later, somebody made an image of Ron Paul in the same style. And the meme went viral.
Then somebody came up with a website where you can create the same kind of image online from your own digital photos.
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