Why you don’t want to shard.

Real World Web: Performance & Scalability.

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Orbited is awesome but needs more documentation (and maybe a functioning website for js.io).

Anti-spam lawyer gets what he had coming. First he set up a phony ISP. Then he sued Virtumundo under CAN-SPAM. He lost the case and was ordered to pay Virtumundo $100,000. He appealed the decision. Debt collector took stuff from his home. Virtumundo offered to give him back his stuff if he drops the appeal. He refused.

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Decaptcher has a TCP socket and an HTTP API. This is a description of the socket API, deciphered from Decaptcher’s official PHP client. You can also look at my version of the Decaptcher PHP client that I posted recently. The following will come in handy if you’d like to code your own client.
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A useful example, plus source code, of setting Flash cookies via javascript. Also of interest: SWFObject and jsSO.