February 11, 2010
I’ve been using Linode for a few months to host about a dozen websites and I’ve been very happy with the experience. I have found the documentation at Linode to be clear and concise, especially when it comes to setting up multiple sites using a standard, Ubuntu-based LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) configuration.
I decided to [...]
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December 10, 2009
If you use Twitter or Facebook, you’re probably familiar with services that shorten a URL, turning something like
http://www.website.com/this-is-a-test-and-it-is-a-lot-to-type-into-a-browser
into
http://pod.li/abcd
For many years, a site called TinyURL.com managed this quite well, and as far as I know, it still does. But as Twitter has taken off, the number of characters in link has become more important. Twitter’s 140 [...]
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