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Today i was reading upon this wonderful article about writing a trace-route program in Python in 40 lines. Even though trace-route is one of the many tools i use on day to day basis, i never really got into writing a version myself (something I like to do just to gain knowledge how things works). [...]

Caching is THE magic solution when it comes to optimizing your web applications. There are a lot of caching strategies and applications outthere. Some prefer MySQL query caching, others use memcache to cache either queries, objects, html or other data. However, one of the biggest problems that a lot of people tend to ignore with [...]

Even though most of my work is done on Linux systems, my laptop and home-systems are installed with Microsoft’s Windows. Even though I don’t want that OS anywhere even remotely near my servers, I think it still is the best system for day to day use. All the software I need is on there, I’m [...]