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W3Counter Updated Thanks to CNET

April 3, 2008

Some time this morning someone submitted W3Counter’s Global Stats report to Digg with a headline about the increase in Linux market share. The story crossed the threshold for a front page listing but was auto-buried… perhaps because that page has already been on the front page at least 4 times this year.
A CNET blogger [...]

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Who are Digg.com’s Users?

June 4, 2007

W3Counter.com’s global stats report was recently featured on Digg.com, the community-driven link sharing site. It isn’t the first time W3Counter’s been voted to the top as Digg’s users are passionate about technology and love to know what everyone else is using — what browsers, operating systems, screen resolutions — the exact stats W3Counter reports [...]

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Reduce Load By Storing Sessions in Memory

June 1, 2007

Another quick tip for reducing server load: keep your sessions in memory instead of on disk. For a dynamic, high traffic site, like a very active message board, your disk is already busy handling all the database work. Take some load off it by moving session storage to memory.

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Request: Graphing CPU Load

April 23, 2007

Can anyone recommend a Linux program that can produce graphs of CPU usage on a server? I could always write something that runs “uptime” every few minutes and logs the values, then produces some graphs, but I assume someone must’ve made something like this before, and I’d rather not duplicate the effort. I’d like [...]

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Dedicated Server Setup Checklist

March 18, 2007

You’ve outgrown shared hosting and decided to start renting a server of your own. Since you’re still on a tight budget, you want an unmanaged server, where full responsibility for configuring and managing the server is yours. These are the steps I go through every time I set up a new server for web [...]

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Detecting Flash and Java with JavaScript

January 3, 2007

Two of the new reports I hope to provide with the new W3Counter are whether a site’s visitors have Flash and Java installed. Since different browsers, and different versions of browsers, make plugin information available in different ways, this is proving more challenging than expected. I have a first attempt at detection of Flash [...]

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The Google Interviews

December 28, 2006

I’ve just finished an hour and a half on the phone doing two interviews for a software engineer intern position at Google. Those were definitely the most interesting, challenging and enjoyable job interviews I’ve ever done.