April 2009

Dialog GSM quietly added a commitment charge to the primary Family package connection from March 2009 without updating marketing materials or notifying customers.

Weekly Twitter digest for 21 April 2009 — Oracle acquires Sun and the future of MySQL, first impressions of Hunch, and a twittercounter stats link.

Configure a two-node web cluster with SSH VPN tunnels, rsync replication, session_mysql for PHP sessions, and two-way MySQL asynchronous replication.

Build a load balanced, high availability, shared-nothing web cluster for under $60/month using two Linode VPSes with rsync, MySQL replication, and SSH tunnels.

Customise Web Invoice email templates for invoice, reminder, and receipt using built-in variables, and add your own via a plugin filter for full localisation.

Web Invoice WordPress invoicing plugin hit 1,000 downloads in under one month — a great billing tool for web developers, SEO consultants, and freelance contractors.