Netuality

Taming the big, bad, nasty websites

Archive for August, 2006

Programming is hard - the website

A newcomer in the world of “code snippets” sites in programmingishard.com. Although the site is a few months old, only recently it started to gain some steam. Unlike its competition Krugle and Koders, this is not a code search engine but a snippet repository entirely tag-based, user-built. The author has a blog at tentimesbetter.com.
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Monitoring memcached with cacti

Memcached is a clusterable cache server from Danga. Or, as they call, it a distributed memory object caching system. Well, whatever. Just note that memcached clients exist for lots of languages (Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, Perl) - mainstream languages in the web world. A lighter version of server was rewritten in Java by Mr. Jehiah [...]