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		<title>Cell Phones And Toilets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are an estimated 6.8 billion people on this planet at the time of this blog post.  There will be 5 billion cell phone subscriptions by the end of this year.  Granted some people have several, most have 1.
To put this in perspective 884 million people in the world do not have access [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2010/03/03/cell-phones-and-toilets/</link>
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		<title>Kernel Upgrade Fun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago I did a kernel upgrade from 2.6.24 to 2.6.32.1.  Surprisingly the load on the server has dropped slightly.  The server is generally under minimal load, just the way I like it so a drop is particularly surprising.  It was restarted just a few weeks prior, so I don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2010/02/23/kernel-upgrade-fun/</link>
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		<title>Making Websites Faster</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always been somewhat of a fan of minimalism when it comes to websites.  The way I figure it:
Simpler + faster = better
Lately I&#8217;ve become slightly obsessed with seeing how much I can tweak a website to perform faster.  In this case it&#8217;s my password generator SafePasswd.com, which I built in 2006 and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2010/02/16/making-websites-faster/</link>
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		<title>Where Is The Asynchronous AdSense Google?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who cares about website performance comes to the quick realization that ads are a huge slow down.  They are also the source of income for many websites.  I somewhat casually mentioned back in December that Google was beta testing an async Google Analytics call.  I found a bug in the early [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2010/02/11/where-is-the-asynchronous-adsense-google/</link>
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		<title>Facebook&#8217;s HipHop For PHP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I mentioned the other day that Facebook was about to open source a method for speeding up PHP.  Today they announced HipHop a code transformation tool  that converts PHP into C++ and compiles using g++.  There is apparently a server component to this strategy as well.
I&#8217;m slightly skeptical that this approach will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2010/02/02/facebooks-hiphop-for-php/</link>
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		<title>Mark Pilgrim On iPad Freedoms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mark Pilgrim has a brilliant blog post on the iPad and the freedoms it&#8217;s taking away from tomorrow&#8217;s programmers.  My favorite part:

Now, I am aware that you will be able to develop your own programs for the iPad, the same way you can develop for the iPhone today. Anyone can develop! All you need [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2010/01/31/mark-pilgrim-on-ipad-freedoms/</link>
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		<title>Facebook&#8217;s New PHP &#8220;Runtime&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to SDTimes Facebook is about to release a new open source project where it has either re-written the PHP Runtime (unlikely) or built a PHP compiler (more likely).
There is another possibility.  It could be a Zend extension acting as an opcode cache (APC, XCache, etc.) and a FastCGI replacement.
It&#8217;s also possible they used [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2010/01/31/facebooks-new-php-runtime/</link>
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		<title>Apple iPad Thoughts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So the iPad is now official (like it was yesterday).
The most interesting thing is they bumped the OS version to 3.2.  I suspect this summer we&#8217;ll see a 4.0 for a much more radically changed iPhone than we&#8217;ve seen in the past 2 revisions.  Otherwise I think they would have called this 4.0.
Some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2010/01/27/apple-ipad-thoughts/</link>
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		<title>Confirmation of the Tablet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The tablet was a foregone conclusion.  Since late last year even if Apple didn&#8217;t want to build one, investors pretty much forced it upon them with the hype.  Failure to produce at least a proof of concept by the end of the quarter would really hurt the stock.
Terry McGraw, CEO of McGraw-Hill decided [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2010/01/26/confirmation-of-the-tablet/</link>
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		<title>JavaScript Flash Implementation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I meant to post this last week already.  Gordon is a JavaScript implementation of Flash.  You read that right.  It&#8217;s written in JavaScript and executes swf files.  It&#8217;s performance isn&#8217;t the same as the Flash player, but it&#8217;s surprisingly good.
This is really cool stuff.  With JavaScript performance improving people are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2010/01/25/javascript-flash-implementation/</link>
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