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3 NEW Wallpapers!

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 by Andrew

A little gift from PINT to you. Please enjoy.
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Bookmark that Site, Save the Cache and Cookies?

Monday, May 11th, 2009 by Thomas

Many users are quite concerned by the amount of tracking performed online so they dump their browser’s cache and cookies quite regularly. Effective privacy perserving strategy or not, all browsers thus have a commonly used setting to dump various browsing droppings like cookies, browser history, and cached files when the browser is closed. When looking [...]

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On Server-side Javascript

Monday, March 9th, 2009 by mschwartz

Javascript has been utilized in the browser for a few years now, but server-side Javascript seems to be something that’s talked about a lot but there still is no viable solution to date.  Right?
There are three real issues with server-side Javascript in general. These are the things I would be looking at before pronouncing that [...]

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Visualizing the Internet

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009 by Thomas

We here at PINT are big on visualization. Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words and sometimes well it is just a pretty picture. We particularly like when technical ideas such as network utilization, tables of scientific data, volumes of site traffic, and so on are presented visually and made both [...]

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Amazon’s AWS: Pros & Cons after hands-on use

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 by mschwartz

Amazon’s AWS is a very interesting service, in theory.  But how does it actually work in practice?  I’ve spent a few days working with it for the first time and here are my impressions.  I’ll be writing from a Linux deployment perspective, though a lot of this information will apply to a Windows deployment.
The first [...]

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Delivery Drama

Monday, December 31st, 2007 by Thomas

Delivery is far too often a second thought, that is of course until the site is swamped or crashes. Once organizations are caught in a fire they look for firemen – that’s where I come in. A few talks, articles, and promoting good delivery practices in the community puts me in the fun [...]

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Battling XSS Today …and Tomorrow (Part 1)

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007 by Joe

In annals of useless of advice, this answer from the Cross Site Scripting (XSS) FAQ on PHP Advisory, to the question of what end-users can do to protect themselves, must rank pretty high:
The easiest way to protect yourself as a user is to only follow links from the main website you wish to view. If [...]

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Upgrading the Plumbing

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007 by Thomas

Infrastructure both online and offline becomes outdated or outmoded, and the core protocol of Web transmission – HTTP – is no exception. For years, Web developers have been both successful and stymied by this simple, stateless protocol. For example, consider the issue of authentication under HTTP. Basic Authentication should be familiar to [...]

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Utilizing MySQL Query Cache

Monday, July 30th, 2007 by Admin

If your application runs the same queries on a routine basis, caching those queries will be extremely beneficial to your overall performance. By enabling the query cache, you can take a query that takes 7 seconds to run the first time and cut it down to less than 1/2 for each additional request. If you’re [...]

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MySQL Database Scalability

Monday, July 23rd, 2007 by Admin

Many web applications bottleneck at the database level. There can be many reasons for this and you want to make sure you’ve looked at a few items before you spend thousands on a bigger, better machine.
If you’ve peeked at the sample MySQL config files, you probably have noticed that they don’t start with very high [...]

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