Linux.com :: New York Times opens up code
Linux.com :: New York Times opens up code
The New York Times likes open source — so much so that, as it gradually moves more of its print operations online, it is nurturing a Web development team that has released two of its own open source projects. XSL Cache is a PHP extension the Times is using to cache stylesheets on its Web site. DBSlayer is a tool the team developed to overcome LAMP scaling limitations that caused database replication processes to overwhelm the DB connection limits.
FT Alphaville
FT Alphaville: Financial Times instant market insight blog that uses WordPress. The developer was less than flattering of the codebase but I love the way he throws in the final word (And yes, my own blog runs Wordpress. It’s just so damned easy to install 
). I urge the author of that email to roll up their sleeves, build some patches with the fixes they made or they think are required and submit them. Also, since all traces of WordPress are removed from the blog, I could not tell whether it is running 2.3 or earlier code. Since 2.3 was released on the 25th and the email is from the 24th, I am assuming that he was using older code. This blog also won the EPPY award recently and was commended for the technology behind the blog.
46 Tax Deductions that Bloggers Often Overlook
46 Tax Deductions that Bloggers Often Overlook: Interesting post from a guest blogger on Darren’s ProBlogger. This is definitely something I will have to check out during tax time. Though I make very little money after expenses from WeblogToolsCollection.com, a nice tax benefit from all the spending would be very welcomed.