New and noteworthy for 4/16/09
Widgets & RSS FeedsHow the Internet Got Its Rules: In a New York Times Opinion column, Steve Crocker, the author of the first RFC, writes about the history of RFCs and how they came to define essential standards for the internet. It’s a fun and informative read for anyone interested in a bit of internet history.
What I learned redesigning the Campaign Monitor newsletter: David Greiner has a great post on the Campaign Monitor blog about the design constrains and process he used to create the template for the redesigned Campaign Monitor newsletter. The post contains many practical tips for gradual improvements or a complete redesign.
The anatomy of a DDoS attack: On its blog, Royal Pingdom, the Pingdom describes the effect on Mininova’s uptime during the Distributed Denial of Service Attack the service suffered last month. The attack lasted for about fourteen hours and used UDP connections that generated about two Gbits of traffic, which completely saturated Mininova’s uplink.
