Dave Elkins

http://carsonified.com/blog/dev/six-useful-tips-for-web-designers-and-developers/
Some handying tips for writing code and help with the development process.
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http://carsonified.com/blog/design/5-advanced-photoshop-techniques-for-web-designers/
A really nice article about how to create some cool effects in photoshop.  I am a developer but it is nice to be able to get a little bit done on the design side and having tutorials like this makes it look like you [...]

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http://blog.new-bamboo.co.uk/2009/8/14/block-helpers

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In this article, Intridea shows you how to use CloudFront and AssetPackager together and prevent stale copies of assets from being served.
http://www.intridea.com/posts/amazon-cloudfront-preventing-stale-assets

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Here is a really good article about using Cassandra from Evan Weaver.
http://blog.evanweaver.com/articles/2009/07/06/up-and-running-with-cassandra/

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A good article about using CloudFront from Amazon and the Paperclip plugin for Rails.  http://www.intridea.com/posts/using-amazon-cloudfront-to-serve-assets

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This is a list of steps I took to setup a headless XServer and CutyCapt on Ubuntu. Please let me know if you run into any issues using these steps.

The first set of steps is to get the requirements for CutyCapt installed and the Headless XServer setup.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install build-essential
sudo apt-get [...]

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http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2009/04/white-paper-creating-hipaacompliant-medical-data-applications-with-amazon-web-services.html

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An interesting article about how FriendFeed uses battled tested technology (MySQL) in new and innovate ways to meet their needs.
http://bret.appspot.com/entry/how-friendfeed-uses-mysql

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http://axonflux.com/building-and-scaling-a-startup

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http://www.therailsway.com/2009/2/22/file-downloads-done-right

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