An honest write up with first hand details of the shortcomings of couchdb in production. There\'s a reason to stick with proven technologies and not simply chasing the latest shiny. Not saying sauce labs did that, just sayin\'.

This post describes our experience using CouchDB, and where we ran into trouble. I'll also talk about how this experience has affected our outlook on NoSQL overall, and how we designed our MySQL setup based on our familiarity with the positive tradeoffs that came with using a NoSQL database.

From: Goodbye, CouchDB | Selenium Testing? Do Cross Browser Testing with Sauce Labs

I think this is an improvement to how we write for the web. Instead of optimizing for a machine algorithm that can bring traffic to an article, writers must concentrate on making the article interesting so that readers will share it with their friends. Curation is the key, which is also why I hated the \"social reader\" apps that want to post for me to see everything my friends read. I want to know what they recommend I read.

"Sixteen months ago we received the same number of monthly referrals from search as social. Now 40% of traffic comes from social media," Scott Havens, senior vice president of finance and digital operations at The Atlantic Media Company, said in a phone conversation ahead of his on-stage interview at our Mashable Connect conference in Orlando, Fla. last weekend. "Truly [our writers] are not really thinking about SEO anymore. Now it's about how we can spin a story so that it goes viral."

From: Why \'The Atlantic\' No Longer Cares About SEO

Seems this is always a tricky one that I run into when setting up a new test site. If you want to lock down the entire site behind a password, but need to allow some unauthenticated requests for external integration, then have a look at the solution below. It uses SetEnvIf to open up access to selected paths. This should work too, if your route most requests through a front controller script using a rewrite rule.

In this brief tutorial, we are going to enable users to access any file or directory of a site that is password-protected via htaccess. There are many reasons for wanting to employ this technique, including:

From: Stupid htaccess Trick: Enable File or Directory Access to Your Password-Protected Site : Perishable Press