Articles like this one, while incredibly well-written and witty, make the classic mistake of assuming (or implying) most apps will ever need to remotely scale to hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of requests a day (where Twitter currently stands).
Update: Terry Chay responds to this article here. I wasn’t 100% clear on the [...]
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Get Over Yourself: Your App Is Not Going to Be the Next Twitter
Published by May 26th, 2007 in Entrepreneurship, PHP, Ruby on Rails and Web Apps. 3 CommentsWordPress K2 Theme + Widgets
Published by April 27th, 2007 in PHP, WordPress and Wordpress Plugins. 0 CommentsTo get WordPress K2 to work with the awesome WP Widgets plugin, you have you use a legacy version of the K2 theme. The latest K2 theme discontinues support of Widgets. Its alternative (sidebar modules) seemed very buggy and didn’t actually work for me.
K2 0.9.1 works great, with one caveat. Finally checked [...]
Coming Soon… A few WordPress Widgets/Plugins
Published by April 25th, 2007 in PHP and Wordpress Plugins. 2 CommentsI’m getting back into the PHP saddle a bit — just so I can whip out a few WordPress widgets & plugins.
WP Widgets are surprisingly easy to develop. I’ve only had to google so far for very few PHP commands that I’ve forgotten since last touching the language (1+ year ago). (to be [...]
