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How do you keep things quick for development and streamlined for high-load? Using a Django and LAMP setup that’s how. We had a pretty busy couple of days over at Curse (what powers curse) and managed to keep a consistent 500,000+ page views per hour with our web servers only be minimally loaded on CPU [...]

It’s Friday 30 March 2007, do you know where your Hobbits are? If you pre-ordered your copy of Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar you do! Turbine has opened the flood-gates and the seven new servers are UP and available for play!read more | digg story

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“You lucky bastard!
” was what I was called when I told some friends I was going to get a chance to play Warhammer Online in person at the Mythic press event. In hindsight, they were right. Before I go into all the warm and fuzzy factual details that were learnt about the game at the [...]

In preparation for the launch of World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, Curse will be adding information guides on the zones of Outland. The first installment is the initial zone you’ll enter upon embarking on your journey into the expansion: Hellfire Peninsula. Follow the link to read about some of the pre-Outland preparations you’ll want [...]

We’re looking to add a member to the team over at Curse. If you have a talent in web/graphics design I encourage you to check out the requirements.

After having built the system on our new CMS, and a couple suggestions from a friend, I came up with a better tracking system as I originally detailed on my blog. The new system is combination of the second method detailed in the post, and a much more accurate solution.
We continue to track the last [...]

Curse Gaming is beta testing their new website. They are doing a stress test on the new platform which is running the Django framework.read more | digg story

Recently I’ve had to develop forum software for a website, and one problem we ran into was the most robust way to track unread posts.
After giving this some thought, I came up with two feasable options. We’ll start by taking a look at the first.
Pure Post Tracking
Method one is to create a table:
“forum_views”
postID (IntegerField)
userID (IntegerField)
Index [...]

Today be International Talk like a Sea dog Tide. Sea dogs an’ land lubbers’s encouraged t’ spice up the’r vocabulary today wi’ a wee trusty gentleman o’ fortune phrases an’ kick aft on th’ beach wi’ a keg o’ rum.
Be havin’ fun!
Play World o’ Warcraft? Ye may want t’ check ou’ this addon by Blaquen: [...]