Here is an interesting find : Busby SEO Challenge.

Friend of mine is participating in challenge where you are competing with other participants on who will score no.1 position on Google for "Busby SEO Challenge" phrase, and award is quite nice too - $5000

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Getfirebug.com is currently unavailable from Europe.
It seams that FF3 is not compatible with latest stable version of firebug (1.0) but you must use some of the beta versions.

At least, it seams that firebug has a lot of users, ant that certainly is a good thing.

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There is a lot of buzz around Erlang these days, and there is a reason to it - Erlang has native solutions for most common problem of todays large web apps:

-Erlang is distributed
-Thus, Erlang is easy to scale
-Erlang comes with built in mnesia database, which can also be distributed
(and it even comes with transaction support)

Erlang is process based language, and programmers from the world of sequential languages must change they mind set rapidly in order to fully understand and take advantage of Erlang.

On the other hand, Erlang is fairly simple language with just a few built in functions an it could take you just a few days to get a grip on it.

and if you dont trust me, you should probably trust guys at Google. Here is one of the topics form this years Google's scalability conference in Seattle:

Scalable Wikipedia with Erlang by Thorsten Schuett, Zuse Institute Berlin

Abstract:

Global online services at Amazon, eBay, Myspace, YouTube, or Google serve millions of customers with tens of thousands of servers located throughout the world. At this scale, components fail continuously and it is difficult to maintain a consistent state while hiding failures from the application.

Peer-to-peer protocols provide availability by replicating services among peers, but they are mostly limited to write-once/read-many data sharing. To extend them beyond the typical file sharing, the support of fast transactions on distributed hash tables (DHTs) is an important yet missing feature.

We will present a distributed key/value store based on a DHT that supports consistent writes. Our system comprises three layers:

* a DHT layer for scalable, reliable access to replicated data,
* a transaction layer to ensure data consistency in the face of concurrent write operations,
* an application layer with an extremely high access rate.

For the application layer, we selected a distributed, scalable Wiki with full transaction support. We will show that our Wiki outperforms the public Wikipedia in terms of served page requests per second and we will discuss how the development of the distributed code benefited from the use of Erlang.

Also Apache built their new document based database called Couch DB on top of Erlang, and Facebook implemented their online chat system in Erlang, so if you think about it, there must be something good about that language.
So why not learn it?

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few months ago we wrote about guys that stole our design.

now, someone stole our entire copy

us:

DevPulse is web development and consulting agency based in Belgrade specialized to offer you highly professional web solutions and consulting services on building your Internet identity and your web applications.
Over last few years we had successfully worked with with clients in our country and abroad and gain serious amount of experience in managing medium to large web applications, interface design, rich Internet applications (RIA) and Ajax, search engine optimization (SEO) and building custom CMS solutions.

We can also offer you services in visual identity building (graphic and logo design) and Internet marketing

http://devpulse.net/

them:

Hyper Max is web development and consulting agency specialized to offer you highly professional web solutions and consulting services on building your Internet identity and your web applications.

Over last few years we had successfully worked with clients in our country and abroad and gain serious amount of experience in managing medium to large web applications, interface design, rich Internet applications (RIA) and PHP, Asp. net, search engine optimization (SEO), building custom CMS solutions and open source customizations .

We can also offer you services in visual identity...

http://www.hypermaxsolutions.com

come on guys, is it really that hard to sit down and write couple lines of original text?

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Wrapper in less than 50 lines

Few days ago find out about Google chart api and i thought it might be a good idea to write Prototype plugin, so here it is:

Project page

Version 0.4 alpha
Download GoogleChartAPI.prototype.js

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Seams that Google is experimenting with new Analytics features. Few moments ago I logged into my analytics account, and noticed some new stuff.

Most of new features comes down to the possibility to compare two graph at the same time, like page views vs visits (picture 1), or page views of some section on site vs total site page views (picture 2)

And all of the sudden, they switched back to old interface, probably they still have some bugs in new interface.

Here are some screen shots from new interface:

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