Category Archives: examples

Varnish: time, resources and money saver. A good friend for journalists and bloggers

Let’s call him “Jim”. Jim had this problem: his blog was so successful that he had to upgrade its server. For a few months, it worked. But soon the problem repeated: hundreds of page-views for second, MySQL and Apache so busy that the server was like melting. One simple update on Facebook — and the [...]

A choice of useful links to every (wannabe) journalist programmer

Jack Lail is News Director of Innovation for the Knoxville News Sentinel. Amongst other random mumblings, he wrote about Some data on database journalism. Because he was speaking to a journalism class about Computer-Assisted Reporting, Computational Journalism and Open Government Data Advocacy efforts and needed some material. Go there an read the full post. Honoring [...]