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A combination of my increasing use of Twitter (you should follow me) and the automated posting of my links from delicious has essentially made this blog obsolete.  Then last week delicious had a moment and posted the same links over and over again, spamming what few readers this blog has still got.

So.  I shall stop the automated posting of links and try to return to actually writing the odd post about things that actually interest me. Those who are actually interested in what I’m bookmarking can subscribe to a feed at http://feeds.delicious.com/rss/offmessage.

• Get Dramatically Faster Boot Times In Karmic With Ubuntu-Boot PPA
  Like it says – speed up your boot time. Admittedly I'm at about 10 seconds with the new SSD, but still – faster, faster!
  (tags: ubuntu boot tweak performance)
• couchdb-wsgi
  (tags: couchdb json python wsgi coding django)

• High Scalability – High Scalability – And the winner is: MySQL or Memcached or Tokyo Tyrant?
  Bake off between MySQL, Memcached and Tokyo Tyrant
  (tags: coding tools reference scaling mysql memcache tokyo tokyocabinet performance)
• The xlrd Module
  Extract data from Excel spreadsheets in python.
  (tags: coding python excel extract data)
• Large Problems in Django, Mostly Solved: Search | Surfing in Kansas
  Django search solved.
  (tags: coding python django search haystack reference)
• Unloading Plone
  Slides from @eleddy's talk at ploneconf2009
  (tags: zope plone python coding scaling ploneconf2009)

• Deliverance — Deliverance v0.3 documentation
  To investigate. Interesting, but can't help thinking that it will hit issues.
  (tags: python plone coding infrastructure templates zope cache)
• York Critical Mass – November 2009 | Facebook
  Bonfire night in style
  (tags: criticalmass york cycle)

• mrtopf.de » Blog Archive » unloading plone – approaching scalability (Plone conference 2009)
  best talk from ploneconf2009 so far. how to scale plone
  (tags: zope coding python plone scaling)
• Python Package Index : munin.zope 1.1a1
  Munin plug ins for Zope
  (tags: coding zope plone munin monitoring tools)
• Python Package Index : ZopeHealthWatcher 0.3
  Zope Health Watcher – includes integration with munin
  (tags: coding python zope monitoring munin plone)
• Plone Testing Tools And Techniques
  The slides from an (apparently) very good presentation on Plone testing (I didn't go – I was having my brains beaten out by A Jung
  (tags: python plone testing reference coding)
• liberiun — bitbucket.org
  Liberiun's code on the Caixa project – specifically performance work, integration with Varnish and memcached
  (tags: coding python plone zope memcache cache varnish tools)
• Deco Grid System
  The Deco grid system that will come with Plone 5
  (tags: plone coding python css layout grid)

• InfoQ: Metrics in an Agile World
  (tags: agile video reference measure performance)
• Please be patient – This Page is Under Construction!
  A vast hoard of under construction images – makes you feel quite nostalgic for a moment
  (tags: history underconstruction graphics web image)

• Telephone Numbers for drama purposes (TV, Radio etc) | Ofcom
  Telephone numbers that can be used in dramas.
  (tags: reference testing telephone numbers tv radio fake)
• Sentinel Redux – a Flash remake of The Sentinel
  Sentinel! In Flash!
  (tags: games flash)

• High-end Varnish-tuning « Kristian's web log
  A starter for ten in getting varnish supporting 27k reqs/s from a single core server
  (tags: reference performance scaling cache proxy varnish)

• XE – Global Payments and Transfers
  Recommended SME service for forward exchange contracts.
  (tags: money transfer forwardexchange currency trade)