Barry’s presentation from WordCamp 2007, which covers how to scale WordPress for lots of users.

The Pound program is a reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTPS front-end for Web server(s).

Cool package for Windows boxes that installs Apache, PHP, MySQL, ASP, JSP, Perl etc, along with some management scripts and other bits and pieces.

Some information on how to integrate bbPress with WordPress.

An interesting tool to generate a plugin template based on the general idea of the actions you want it to take etc.

Boxed CSS is a free website that offers you CSS grids : they are free to be downloaded and modified, without a linkback required.

Detailed Squid FAQ

Some hints on installing and managing Squid.

Parses logfiles from Squid, NetCache, Inktomi Traffic Server, Oops! proxy server, Novell Internet Caching System, Compaq Tasksmart or Netscape/iplanet Web Proxy Server and generates a report.

A little old, but seems to be a pretty detailed tutorial on getting Squid running.

Information Architecture/UxD blog/news site.

This WordPress theme is based on Fibonacci’s Golden Cut and claims to be “ideal”.

Chris Messina has an awesome collection of screenshots of design patterns and whatnot.

A better method for embedding widgets (JS) in pages that won’t slow down the “host” site.

Track down how you came across a page in your History by back-tracking links leading up to it with this plugin.

Decent intro article on how to use and then access meta-data/custom fields in WordPress. The possibilities with this are really quite impressive.

Impressive music video with Chloe Bruce, freestyle martial artist. Cylob – Rewind is the audio track.

Pretty slick (sounding) tool for using OmniGraffle as a database design tool. Targeted to MySQL which is nice.

Good details on all of the elements available in ER Diagrams

Mark Nottingham’s site. Smart guy into HTTP/Web Services/REST/Caching/feeds/etc.

cgi_buffer is a group of libraries (for Perl, Python and PHP) that automatically handle performance-improving HTTP features that most Web servers don’t implement (at least for scripts).

Detailed reference manual on all the Squid configuration directives.

Brief intro to get started with Squid using some really basic settings.

Details on the Apache module for running as a proxy/cache.

A page that allows you to generate pages with defined expiry/last modified headers to test a caching configuration.

Wiki-based guide to using and managing Squid (the proxy/caching system).

Constantly updated list of AJAX examples and implementations.

The definitive caching plugin for WordPress. Stores static versions of pages to speed up response times.

Awesome collection of all sorts of pre-built solutions using AJAX for common web development problems.

Some very cool information on how to squeeze more information out of GA and use it as a more generalized web stats framework.

Awesome list of ways to use SED to do cool stuff.

Nice simple explanations of DNS.

PHP class to handle sending network Growl notifications using PHP

Mashable compilation of all sorts of cool tools related to RSS/feeds.

Incredibly addictive online game. You place towers on your desk, and then lines of “creeps” try to run past them. If your towers are well-placed, they’ll shoot the creeps down. If not, they get across and you lose.

Awesome collection of developer-oriented articles from IBM developerWorks specifically about web development. All sorts of good AJAX, PHP, MySQL etc etc articles.

Interesting wiki with all sorts of guides and tips on PHP programming from really basic to quite advanced.

Another approach to multi-threading in PHP. This includes a class (PHP4-style) to abstract most of the operations out.

Good copy-paste style howto on setting up replication for MySQL.

Awesome set of actions for Automator on a Mac to handle batch processing of XML files including application of XSL transformations, validation etc etc.

Multi-threading (forking) in PHP and how to make it happen. Complicated, but could work for FeedBlendr.

Cool library for parsing and extracting microformats from pages using PHP5.

Pretty slick web-based feed reader that uses AJAX etc to speed things up. Lightweight interface, categories, tags, etc etc. Very nice.

Project to provide an open framework for collecting/reporting on web analytics/data.

The Subversion trunk to an interesting project named “HyperDB” which adds a DB layer giving more flexibility for query balancing and all sorts of nifty DB-stuff for WordPress (mu)

Some nice designs for inspiration

Authentication plugin for DokuWiki that uses a WordPress DB’s users etc to log in.

An enhanced output class for use with PHP. Gives nicer output than basic print_r or something similar.

My plugin for DokuWiki that allows you to quickly and easily create a simple blog using the wiki engine as the backend.

Locations where there should be a T-Mobile HotSpot in California

This article introduces six methods and 12 tools for monitoring system load, performance and related information on GNU/Linux and similar systems.

The Tango Desktop Project exists to help create a consistent graphical user interface experience for free and Open Source software.

Good guide for designers etc to check out and learn about the process of converting a design into CSS/XHTML.

MS Office alternative for Mac. Based on OpenOffice, but “Apple-ized”.

Pretty detailed set of FAQs for Fedora.

Venture firm with CA office. Interested in related things.

Blog about mobile technology, usability etc

Brad Feld, VC. Specifically interested in RSS and related tech. NewsGator is one of his big investments.

Jeff Clavier, SoftTech VC. Funding in the software market, with specific interests in social software, Web 2.0 startups and “consumer infrastructure” in that space.

Startup Camp is an unconference-style event that’s dedicated to bringing together the various members of the startup community for a face-to-face collaborative meetup where its the attendees that drive the agenda (in true unconference …

Send email to an address and have it publish to an RSS feed.

FeedBlendr, profiled on a new site that covers upcoming startups.

Video from Google itself on tuning MySQL for better performance

IM-based digg+del.icio.us bookmarking/voting system.

Interesting-looking incubator organization set up by some well-known tech entrepreneurs.

Could it be real? Some guy is figuring out a way to back MySQL data onto Amazon S3.

XML Content Server with integrated, XML-based operations like XQuery, transforms, etc.

Awesome Perl app which will update dynamic DNS information with DynDNS in an environment where your IP isn’t static (EC2?)

Smart guy with great experience dealing with feeds (Feedster) and mobile (AdMob).

Pretty slick site with loads of free web service APIs. Can’t figure out what the deal with these guys is though…

Interesting site that splices in Geo information to a feed, by reading the contents and finding geographically-relevant references.

Post on FeedBurner’s site covering a good summary of a lot of their stats right now.

Good starting point for a custom Feedville widget? Very cool, customizable RSS reader foundation with adjustable colors, entry counts, icons etc etc.

Written by Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson, VCs from Mobius.

The objective of Simple Sharing Extensions (SSE) is to define the minimum extensions necessary to enable loosely-cooperating apps.

“An entrepreneur’s guide to hacking venture capital.”

“Startupping is a one-of-a-kind community resource created for Internet entrepreneurs by Internet entrepreneurs. It is a place to share information, ask questions, and tap into the experience of others who have built and are building web …

New blog in the GigaOM network about starting up a company/entrepreneurship etc.

“RSSBus is a collection of tools and services that simplify the process of creating RSS Feeds with rich data extensions”

“on-demand service environment for efficiently developing and instantly deploying next generation web applications”

“A simple, powerful new way to create web-based business applications that can be used by anyone, anytime, anywhere!”

Website scraping engine, pulls in data and then allows you to “do things with it”

Interesting-looking blogging/CMS platform created by Christina Wodtke. It runs boxesandarrows.com. Also appears that 37Signals consulted on the design – it’s very “BaseCamp” etc.

Interesting app that claims to rank incoming news/info based on your likely interest and then notify you accordingly.

From the RSS Advisory Board – official documents on how to implement auto-discovery

Generic form layout package allowing the application of a single class to change overall form layout.

An online news reader that offers to split Google AdSense revenue with feed publishers

Interesting take on project management. Basically a souped-up spreadsheet with users, date selection, powerful reporting etc. Apparently uses EC2 and S3 to power it.

Interesting tools based on Amazon Web Services. Especially the distributed, multi-access local filesystem using FUSE, backed into S3.

PHP code for dealing with Amazon Web Services!

Perfect for creating custom avatars for a website based on a URL or upload. Select the part you want and crop away.

Reasonably complete list of feed mashup services (a la FeedBlendr)

Amazon Web Services has created an exciting platform for deploying web applications based on Elastic Compute Cloud and Simple Storage Service. If you are considering using EC2 and S3, AWS-Console will make your life easy.

Amazon EC2 load balancer which automatically requests and kills new instances based on load.

Ranked by number of feed subscribers through FeedBurner

A web service search index of the entire blogosphere

Plugin for WordPress to allow integration of OpenAds advertising into feeds etc.

Automatically syndicate a feed and supplement it with audio of the read-out version of a post.

A small javascript/flash library to get the best of both worlds – The great upload capabilitys of flash and the accessibility and ease of html/css