--- title: links for 2007-07-18 date: 2007-07-18T05:27:09Z modified: 2007-07-18T05:27:09Z permalink: "https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/07/17/links-for-2007-07-18/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 1669 categories: - Links timestamp: 2007-07-18T05:27:09Z tags: - Links --- - [How to write with style](http://www.harmonize.com/probe/aids/manual/style.htm) “Newspaper reporters…are trained to reveal almost nothing about themselves in their writings. This makes them freaks…since almost all of the other ink-stained wretches in that world reveal a lot…We call these revelations…elements of style.” – amen (tags: [kurtvonnegut](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/kurtvonnegut) [advice](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/advice) [articles](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/articles) [book](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/book) [business](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/business) [creative](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/creative) [funny](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/funny) [writing](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/writing) [via:david](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/via:david)) - [Joyeur: Just what web server should be sitting in front of my Rails application?](http://joyeur.com/2007/07/16/just-what-web-server-should-be-sitting-in-front-of-my-rails-application) some interesting – if a bit dated – web server findings from Jason (tags: [webserver](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/webserver) [nginx](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/nginx) [lighttpd](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/lighttpd) [mongrel](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/mongrel) [performance](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/performance) [httpd](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/httpd) [apache](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/apache) [caching](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/caching)) - [Hoynes’ Best Ever: Manny being Manny – cleveland.com](http://www.cleveland.com/sports/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/sports/1184499046269620.xml&coll=2) “When the Indians were in Kansas City one year, Ramirez and Julian Tavarez approached two Indians beat reporters and asked if they could borrow $10,000 each. “We each want to buy motorcycles,” said Ramirez.” – hilarious (tags: [redsox](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/redsox) [mannyramirez](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/mannyramirez) [boston](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/boston) [baseball](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/baseball) [humor](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/humor)) - [Mozilla based browser for maemo](http://browser.garage.maemo.org/) too bad this is just for the N800, otherwise i’d give it a whirl on my 770 when i get back to Denver (tags: [mozilla](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/mozilla) [maemo](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/maemo) [nokia](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/nokia) [linux](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/linux) [devices](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/devices)) - [YouTube Scalability Talk – Kyle Cordes](http://kylecordes.com/2007/07/12/youtube-scalability/) fascinating talk from the YouTube guys on scalability (tags: [architecture](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/architecture) [clustering](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/clustering) [code](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/code) [concurrency](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/concurrency) [databases](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/databases) [scalability](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/scalability) [megadata](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/megadata) [via:joe](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/via:joe)) - [funkatron.com : What Matt Mullenweg doesn’t know about PHP5, and how it hurts him and his users](http://funkatron.com/index.php/site/comments/what-matt-mullenweg-doesnt-know-about-php5-and-how-it-hurts-him-and-his-use/) pushback to Matt’s thoughts on PHP 5; it’s a complicated issue, obviously (tags: [mattmullenweg](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/mattmullenweg) [php](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/php) [php5](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/php5) [security](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/security) [scalability](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/scalability) [objectoriented](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/objectoriented)) - [Sam Ruby: Popular Sovereignty](http://intertwingly.net/blog/2007/07/17/Popular-Sovereignty) “Approximately eight years ago I submitted an outline of an approach to integrate PHP4 with Java. The response was…’here is your CVS account’. This fundamentally changed my notion of us and them.” – Sam, on PHP (tags: [samruby](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/samruby) [php](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/php) [community](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/community) [patches](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/patches)) - [Q&A: IBM Visionary Retires](http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2159092,00.asp) “The answer is easy: Find where the smart people are and hang out with them. I’m serious. The smart people have a lot of ideas” – the premise on which our business is built (tags: [redmonk](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/redmonk) [irvingwladawskyberger](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/irvingwladawskyberger) [innovation](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/innovation) [vision](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/vision) [via:michael](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/via:michael)) - [Getting off the Web 2.0 Hype Treadmill (by Jeremy Zawodny)](http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/009248.html) “I unsubscribed from Steve’s blog because he had a habit of writing in breathless fashion about the latest shiny new thing–often several times a day. I made an conscious decision to drop virtually all ‘news’ sources…that felt like breathless hype.” +1 (tags: [steverubel](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/steverubel) [jeremyzawodny](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/jeremyzawodny) [hype](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/hype) [new](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/new) [2.0](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/2.0))