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There's a few users currently abusing my company's site via Yahoo Pipes (in the form of a few hundred thousand malformed requests per week). We're a decently-ranked startup (top 2k alexa) and the requests don't really hurt us, but they're screwing with our error reporting and stats.

It's possible to "block" them by looking for a special HTTP header and conditionally matching their Yahoo Pipes user ID, but it'd be nice if the Pipes team actually took abuse seriously. They essentially told us they couldn't do anything when we submitted an abuse complaint. :(

I don't know. I'd seriously consider having a Thomas Jefferson instead of the last ten US presidents even armed only with the knowledge from his era.

I disagree about nginx being more difficult to configure than Apache. Apache's config file was terrifyingly complex to me when I first started using it.

If you're doing a serious deployment, check out Unicorn instead: http://unicorn.bogomips.org

Basic overview of its architecture: http://github.com/blog/517-unicorn

What?

Title of modrails.com: "Overview — Phusion Passenger™ (a.k.a. mod_rails / mod_rack)"

I disagree. We spend a considerable amount of time writing our behavioural tests (we have around 1,700 for our large web app), but they have saved us countless times from having to track down bugs after deploying code.

There was an article published in the last few weeks which showed that teams who write tests spend 10-15% longer in the development process, but they also save 25-30% of the development process time by not having to fix regression defects. Unfortunately, I don't remember which site it was linked from or what the article's title was. If I can find it, I'll link it here.

If your app has been running for over a year, you might want to look into this (before someone else does)... http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/7f57...

You need to read Applied Cryptography.

I want to watch this, but I can only watch the postage stamp-sized video linked from the first paragraph. If I actually visit the video's page on Vimeo, it tells me that the video is private. :(

Yup. http://finalbuilds.edskes.net/iecollection.htm

1) This is why people end up writing server emulators. All the major MMORPGs have at least one.

2) I agree. This goes along with the booming micropayment systems.

I'd rather have a consistent database than a fast one!

Supposedly, it ships on the 19th. I pre-ordered. :)

This system is exactly how pragprog.com works.

You can even purchase a PDF/book combo before the book is completed and have access to a (constantly updated) beta version of the PDF. When the book is completed, the PDF is finalised and the book itself is mailed to you.

I am the black wizards.

Thanks!

What is the name of that bookmarklet that makes any page readable? This site needs it badly.