Unicode offers flipped versions of standard English characters. You can use a small javascript based utility to get flipped version of any word or phrase. The flipped text can be copy-pasted to any (unicode capable) editor, your web page or blog. View source to see the actual translations.

This is a very interesting presentation (see below) on the technologies used to make Digg, the challenges faced along the way and how they overcame it. I would recommend it to any Web 2.0 startup architects. In short Digg uses multiple MySQL slaves with a single master, multiple load balanced PHP servers which connects to random MySQL slave (for load balancing obviously). They also use Memcached with multiple specialized pools like a separate pool for search.

This is what I call quality programming! John Resig released JQuery 1.1.3. The key improvements are:

Poromenos, a greek student, has written a nice tutorial on Python, a rapidly growing and ever popular Web 2.0 language. I think it will take you somewhat longer than 10 minutes to go through all the examples. Also it is more of a cheatsheet than a tutorial. Having said that it is still a nice introduction to Python.

Any growing business has to eventually move to high end web hosting solutions like Colocation, Dedicated Web Hosting, Managed Hosting or Fully Outsourced solution. Let's look at the advantages and disadvantages of each solution.