Here are some interesting links from Start-up news:
Inside Myspace.com – a look at how myspace scaled.
What do the web’s most popular websites use?
If you’re starting a start-up, how many friends do you need?

Paul Graham’s Y-combinator has created new news site called Start-up news. Here is Paul Graham’s annoucement for the launch. He states the intention of the site as

..the most important goal of news.ycombinator was to create a place where founders and would-be founders can meet and talk.

He is also using the forum as a means to [...]

Here are the slides from my talk this afternoon.
Here’s a tip on how to turn on HTTPD compression on your php site.
Option 1) Edit your php.ini file

; Transparent output compression using the zlib library
; Valid values for this option are ‘off’, ‘on’, or a specific buffer size
; to be used for compression (default is 4KB)
; [...]

I’m speaking at the WDANZ conference tomorrow. I’m speaking about two things close to my heart – “ZoomIn” and “Optimising websites for Speed”.
I look forward to meeting web developers from all over the Canterbury region.

Interesting stats from Rankr this week . MSN has just jumped past google and trade me on Rankr stats this week.
I wonder if Vista has anything to do with this ????