Category Archives - Video

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How WordPress Uses 300 Servers to Serve Millions of Blogs

What do you do when your blog goes from a thousand pageviews a day to a million? Well, you start out by watching this video of a lecture on HyperDB and High Performance WordPress given by Barry Abrahamson and Matt Mullenweg at WordCamp 2007, in which they explain how they scale WordPress.com across hundreds […]

Seattle Conference on Scalability: YouTube Scalability

This video features Google engineer Cuong Do, an engineering manager that helped scale the YouTube software and hardware infrastructure from its infancy to its current scale.
He discusses challenges of dealing with the growth including hardware, software and databases.

WordCamp 2007: Matt Mullenweg - State of the Word

This one hour session, entitled State of the Word, from the WordCamp 2007 conference features Matt Mullenweg giving an update on the current state and future plans for WordPress.
This lecture occurred on Sunday July 22, 2007 from 3:30-4:30pm in San Francisco, CA at the Swedish American Hall. Matt gave the updates and then allowed […]

Firebug Web Authoring Tool Video Overview

Joe Hewitt is a Mozilla developer who has written software dear to the heart of all web developers, including the original Mozilla DOM Inspector.
Joe’s newest Mozilla tool is Firebug, an integral logging and debugging extension for Firefox that sets a new standard for its category. Joe provided a power-user tour while announcing Firebug 1.0’s […]

Douglas Crockford Lecture: The JavaScript Programming Language

The following 2 hours worth of videos make up a lecture by Douglass Crockford giving an overview of just about everything you ever wanted to know about the JavaScript programming language.
The accompanying slides can also be found here. Enjoy!

Make Money Online With Contextual Advertising

Jeremy Schoemaker recently gave a speech at Search Engine Strategies in New York and was allowed to record and post the presentation. Unfortunately he was not allowed to post the slides, but he said that they were mainly just photos and wouldn’t add that much value.
Interestingly Jeremy’s experience with Google AdSense seems to have […]