Alessandro Pistilli Blog – New York City

Open-source PHP applications that changed the world
From managing databases to shopping, writing blogs to sending emails. Ten years of passion, great software architectures, team work and revolutionary ideas. Here are the most influential open-source PHP applications to date. My favs: phpmyadmin, wordpress, zend framework!

Experiences deploying a large-scale infrastructure in Amazon EC2
Folks at OpenX recently completed a large-scale deployment of one of their server farms to Amazon EC2. Here are some lessons learned from that experience. Useful for everybody!

Real Time Cities, or Just Info Porn?
Andrea Vaccari, from the SENSEable City lab at MIT, spoke at ETech recently about how cities are being transformed by mobile Web technologies. He described MIT’s project WikiCity, which monitors cell phone traces in Rome and creates visualizations from them.

Are Cloud Based Memory Architectures the Next Big Thing?

Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Mistakes

The 10 biggest mistakes IT managers make

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Ten23 Software writes about their experience with iPhone application development.

The result is a sort of how to about do and don’t!

Building PhotoKast: Creating an iPhone app in one month

Cal Henderson (Flickr) – Scalable Web Architectures: Common Patterns and Approaches

Handle 1 Billion Events Per Day Using a Memory Grid