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System administration, tricks and tips from an old school web-hacker.

Campaign Monitor for your mobile

Today we're super excited to announce a new mobile optimized version of Campaign Monitor that gives you and your clients quick access to great looking reports on any campaigns you've sent. It's fast, looks great and is available now. Just head to your account on any popular mobile device like an iPhone or Android and the mobile version will be shown by default. You don't need to install anything, because it is a web application, not a native phone application.

Google Moderator - I had no idea this existed.

Let your audience decide Get to know your audience by letting them decide which questions, suggestions or ideas interest them most. Everyone's voice is heard The voting box at the top of page focuses attention on submissions recently added and on the rise, making it simple and easy to participate. Be creative Include people in your preparation for lectures, interviews and hard decisions or work together to organize feature requests and brainstorm new ideas.

No. You Can’t Pick My Brain. - Kicking Sand

Strategic and creative counsel is one of the most under-monetized aspects of being in the communications and marketing business. Would you ask a lawyer to coffee to “pick his brain?” Do you think a profession as ruthless as they are known, and whose services are enlisted regularly and paid well for, would dole out a hour advice to you for $3.50? Unless he’s your dear friend, what’s in it for him?

Performance Tuning for Phusion Passenger (an Introduction) - Alfa Jango Blog

Phusion Passenger (aka mod_rails) allows for easy and scalable deployment of Ruby on Rails applications on Apache or Nginx servers. Part of what makes it so easy is that it comes with suitable default settings right out of the box, so that you don’t need to concern yourself with any of the details when deploying your application to production. However, once you’ve launched your application and people start actually using it, you may find server experiencing excessive swapping once the traffic begins to pick up.

5 Best iPhone Apps For Controlling Your Mac or PC

There are literally dozens and dozens of iPhone and iPod touch apps that can control your PC (be it Mac, Windows or Linux ()), but after using and testing the big players in this field (and even the small ones), I’ve found five of my favorites. Check them out and be sure to leave your own suggestions in the comments. via mashable.com

Red Menace - Stop the Ug99 Fungus Before Its Spores Bring Starvation

The men move three steps right to a slightly more robust clump of wheat. The Australian asks: “Yandanooka?” “25 MR?” comes the tentative reply from a mustachioed Nepali in a green baseball cap. They slide over to inspect another stalk, and then another. To the women at the tap, faces scrunched in puzzlement, the call-and-response sounds like gibberish — and to most of the world, it is. But to the jumpsuited strangers in East Africa — a group of elite plant pathologists — these codenames and numbers are a lingua franca, describing just how badly a crop has been ravaged by disease.

tweethook. twitter data. pushed to you.

TweetHook makes receiving Twitter Search data simple and automatic. Using the power of webhooks, setting up a continuous search on Twitter is a snap. Enter your query, enter your webhook URL, sit back and enjoy the data! Learn More » via tweethook.com

Belmont Club » Humble Pie - this guy is always a great read.

Think of Greece as California … the problem is there are never enough of “the rich” to fund the entitlement state, because in the end, it disincentivizes everything from wealth creation to self-reliance to the basic survival instinct, as represented by the fertility rate. In Greece, they’ve run out Greeks, so they’ll stick it to the Germans, like French farmers do. In Germany, the Germans have only been able to afford to subsidize French farming because they stick their defense tab to the Americans.

Notes from a production MongoDB deployment « Boxed Ice Blog

Back in July last year I wrote about our migration from MySQL to MongoDB. We have been running MongoDB in production for our server monitoring service, Server Density, since then – 8 months – and have learnt quite a few things about it. These are the kind of things that you only experience once you reach a certain level of usage and it is surprising how few issues we’ve had.