For an upcoming project, I need to pull in metadata about movies and TV shows — genres, plot summaries, actors, etc. The de-facto source is, of course, IMDB. Unfortunately, they're behind the times and don't offer an API to access their data. (At least not one that I've ever found.) So,...
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So it's been two weeks since my Drobo arrived from Amazon. I'm sure they're selling like hotcakes, but I don't personally know anyone else with one — I figured I might as well gather my thoughts and post a review. Hopefully this will give a good overview if you're not...
Clever solution from Daniel Jalkut of Red Sweater Software to speed up reading...
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[Update: You might also be interested in s3up for storing static content in Amazon S3.] Earlier this week I posted about my experience redesigning this site, focusing on optimizing my page load times using YSlow. A large part of that process involved storing static content (images, stylesheets, JavaScript) on Amazon S3...
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It's been a long time coming, but I finally pushed out a new design for this website last month. I rebuilt it from the ground up using two key tools from the Yahoo! Developer Network: YUI Grids and YSlow The new design is really a refresh of the previous look with a focus...
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