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#41621: Brad's name is Brad Fitzpatrick, not Brad Fitzgerald, as the text reads. See his personal site or Wikipedia article.--Phillip Calvin

 P1.0
24-Nov-09
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#32213: The creator of LiveJournal, Brad Fitzpatrick, is incorrectly referred to as "Brad Fitzgerald."--Leigh Caplan

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29-May-08
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#34452: "With memcached, the web page check memcached" should be "checks memcached"--Jim Van Fleet

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09-Sep-08
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#37104: Brad Fitzpatrick's name is given as "Brad Fitzgerald".--Win Treese

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17-Jan-09
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#32267: This booklet is very good. I have one request: It seems this PDF is not indexed. I have tried to search it using either skim, spotlight or pre...more...
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04-Jun-08
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#32414: "One way to remove date from memcached is to delete it" should read "One way to remove data from memcached is to delete it" - first p...more...
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18-Jun-08
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#34277: "The simplest is flusha_all." should be "The simplest is flush_all."--Ken Collins

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27-Aug-08
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#48697: cmd_misses -> get_misses--Brian Maltzan

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10-Feb-12
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#48698: context for #48697: This data is actually derived using cmd_get, get_hits, and cmd_misses.--Brian Maltzan

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10-Feb-12
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#41660: because multiple servers for an application will be
storing differen sets of data.

differen->different--Frank Morton

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30-Nov-09
23
#36960: Line 6 of the script uses "deb01:11211", but the sidebar implies that "deb01" should be shown as an IP address (like the "192.168.0.80:11211" ...more...
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09-Jan-09
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#35589: In the side bar, the last paragraph reads: "...but you should now it’s here so you can...". It should be: "...but you should know it’s here ...more...
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03-Nov-08
27

#48699: enable_comprss->enable_compress
Context: enable_comprss only works, however, if the compression threshold has been set--Brian Maltzan

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10-Feb-12
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#33483: @Sidebar "Not ever client supports compression."
Should be "Not ever[y] client..."--Ben Duong

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02-Aug-08
32

#48700: tempest url no longer works, alternate:
shakespeare.mit.edu/tempest/full.html--Brian Maltzan

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10-Feb-12
32

#40548: Last line on page contains double negative "isn't not" which should say "is not".--Ben Duong

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23-Aug-09
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#43340: In the calendar of events scripts: my $lockKey = sha512_base64($statement.":lock" ); my $key = sha512_base64($statement); If the order ...more...
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20-May-10
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#43341: The GetCalendarOfEventsDB (-3.pl) needlessly recalculates the key on line 25 when inserting the result of the database lookup into the cache.--Seth Arnold

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20-May-10
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#33484: @first sentence on page: "...you need to be prepared to get handle an error code and respond to it". To handle is to respond; sentence needs ...more...
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02-Aug-08
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#43342: "Let'st start with" should be "Let's start with"--Seth Arnold

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20-May-10
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#35991: Section 4.6 paragraph 2, "If you’re code has been written" should grammatically be be "If your code has been written".--Paul Umbers

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19-Nov-08
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#32800: If you're code has been written to minimize cache stampedes then this should be a minimal impact. "You're" should be "your", this should "...more...
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09-Jul-08
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#43343: "with the each of the $dataKey" should read "with each $dataKey" or "with every $dataKey".--Seth Arnold

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20-May-10
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01-Nov-12