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Social 2.5

I’m very pleased to share version 2.5 of Social with you. Brought to you by our good friends at MailChimp (see their blog post), Social is a…

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  • It's thoughtful
  • It's elegant
  • It's exciting
  • IT'S THIS MUCH FUN!

Colorado Flag Web Geek T-shirts

Fellow Colorado web geeks, I made you a t-shirt. The code that comprises the white stripe is a full, working HTML page with canvas code that draws…

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Work-Life Balance (We’re Hiring)

It’s been very interesting to me to see how some folks are re-evaluating their work/life balance in the wake of reading Isaacson’s Steve…

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FeedLounge Downtime

February 18, 2006

FeedLounge was down for about 20 hours last week while we upgraded the back-end systems to roll out a huge performance improvement. This, naturally, generated some unrest amongst our users.

After Scott and I got some rest and discussed the matter, I posted a lengthy response in the thread.

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  1. Matt
    View February 18, 2006

    It’d be fascinating to read what made such a huge difference in performance.

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  2. Alex
    View February 18, 2006

    Basically, we’re moving as much data out of the primary database as possible… lots of memcached data and smaller dbs.

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  3. Scott Sanders
    View February 19, 2006

    One word – Interns :) Seriously, you scale out from 1 to 10, you definetly see 10x linear performance increase :)

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  4. Geof F. Morris's Indiana Jones School of Management
    View February 19, 2006

    The Importance of Personal Touch

    Recently, the FL guys had a scheduled downtime that went far longer than they’d expected; as you might expect, not everyone was happy about it. I was among that group, but … I dealt with it. I knew that me being pissed off about it wasn&#…

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  5. Anthony Timberlake
    View February 22, 2006

    I would have to say that I am proud to be a customer of FeedLounge. The service is GREAT and the customer service is the same.

    Thanks for doing what you guys do best.

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  6. 2006 in Review | alexking.org
    View April 18, 2007

    [...] of good service. I create a photo of the week voting system for WetPixel. FeedLounge suffers its first downtime. I attend Mashup Camp and start exploring alternative handheld [...]

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Alex King, Web Developer

I live in Denver, CO where I founded Crowd Favorite. We enjoy building cool web stuff – especially with WordPress and Open Source.

I was an original contributor to WordPress, creator of ShareThis, and I am the co-founder of CloudMoxie and BackupMoxie.

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