Jiwei Wang’s Notepad

On a post entitled “App stores are not the future, says Google“, Chris Nuttall reported
App stores do not represent the future of the mobile industry according to Google’s vice president of engineering Vic Gundotra, who maintains consumers will instead turn to web browsers to fill their information and entertainment needs. Speaking Thursday [...]

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Apache is not adequate in restricted environment
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I have a few busy websites running Wordpress, phpBB, phpList, eTicket, Magento and other PHP/MySQL based scripts. I get close to 1M hits a month with a peak observed at 9 hits/second.  A shared hosting won’t work for me anymore.  A dedicated server is too expensive and perhaps an over-kill. So I set off to [...]

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Jan. 8th, 2008 marked the official 10 year anniversary of Google’s famous PageRank algorithm.  The idea was conceived earlier, but Larry Page filed the PageRank algorithm patent (U.S. Patent 6,285,999 ) on Jan. 8th 1998. PageRank together with the business acumen of the Google folks powered Google to the throne of Internet. Is this worth celebrating?  [...]

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