Want to learn more about how Facebook scales their infrastructure? It’s a fascinating presentation by Robert Johnson who is the Director of Engineering at FB.
Github's Creative 404, 500 Pages
Wow. Now isn’t that clever (and creative)!
They are slightly animated as well:
Volcom: Ooyala Customer Study
An obvious case study (and marketing attempt) at showing off Ooyala‘s video platform.
SEO-Centric CMS for Web Professionals
I’ll admit that I’m a bit skeptical about this new CMS system which says explicitly that the CMS will “turn you into a SEO expert”; I don’t believe any CMS can do that but a well-crafted CMS can help educate you!
WordPress To Require PHP5
WordPress 3.2 is due out this year and is going to be making a major shift in terms of the libraries on which it depends.
Specifically, WordPress is going to require PHP5.
Locomotive: Open Source CMS on Rails
Locomotive, a free open source CMS build on Rails, is actively in BETA right now but apparently is pretty stable. It’ll integrate with Heroku or even AmazonS3.
Ruby has been an ever-increasing interest for me as well as my team and we’ve even begun developing apps in it.