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Top Screencast Sites for Open-Source Developers

Want to learn a new programming language or development framework? Books, magazines, and blogs are excellent -- but a growing number of people are also learning from screencasts, tutorials that combine someone's voice with a video of their computer screen. You can watch the teacher develop in real time, describing the actions that he or she is taking while they take place. There are many screencasts for open-source languages and frameworks, many for free and some for a nominal fee. Screencasts are playing a growing role in my attempt to keep up with new technologies, and you might well find them useful, too.



How They Scale Their Apps: From Flickr to Craigslist

For many developers focused on applications that reside on the web, including open source developers working on database-centric and software-as-a-service sites, the issue of scaling applications is increasingly important. You can find a couple of recent columns we did on cloud computing solutions for scaling applications here. Today, a post on scalability over at James Hamilton's blog caught my eye. He starts out with a discussion of how the database architecture underlying Flickr is constructed, but what's really striking is hisﾠ collection of posts from around the web on how sites ranging from Craigslist to Technorati to Second Life approach scalability.


On the PHP Front, Zend Gets $7 Million in Funding

Providing further evidence that venture capital is continuing to flow to open source and web-focused companies, Cupertino-based Zend has just received up to 7 million dollars from TriplePoint Capital. Zend is a leading provider of products and services for developing, deploying and managing business PHP applications. The move comes right on the heels of another rosy quarter for open source venture capital funding, but maybe there is more to Zend's announcement than meets the eye.