Link bundle //23 Feb 2011
Drupal
Fast 404 — Drupal is known for its expensive 404s. This module tries to solve this by handling missing resources and bad paths to provide light 404s. If you have a popular site and lots of 404s, the module will save you lots of trouble.
Design
Something Splendid — simple landing page with subtle css3 effects and smart use of transparency in the logo.
Designers & Books — a resource devoted to publish book recommendations from established figures in the design community.
Free icons (Chalkwork) — Dave Shea releases his Chalkwork icon family for free under CC
Dev
Numbers every developer should know — approximate times of various operations on a typical PC. Good to keep in mind when thinking of performance in web apps.
A great quote on learning by doing
HTML5 tech specification — finally usable, beatiful HTML5 specification
Other
Why Your Startup Needs a Dashboard — a good write-up on why startups need to keep an eye on metrics. Remember Cultured Code’s Arrivals and Panic’s status board?
Redirect to a mobile version of your site on the webserver level using nginx — http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/nginx/108242/ (in Russian) and http://nicknotfound.com/2009/01/12/iphone-website-with-nginx
Scaling the world’s largest Django application — video and slides on scaling Disqus
It will never work! — pretty long list of things declared non-viable throughout time, yet we cannot imagine living without them.
The Gift — beautiful CGI work from a Russian crew for the Parallel Lines project by Phillips Cinema.
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