Links for Friday, October 21, 2005: Affiliate Classroom, MySQL Optimization, Web 2.0, PHP Meetup Day, Don Lancaster goes RSS

• Affiliate Classroom Magazine – The magazine about building an affiliate business.
• Zend: Application Design and PHP – Three good articles.
• HackMySQL.com -Some very informative articles and tools to help tune MySQL databases and queries.
• Web 2.0 Mashup Matrix – Must be seen to be believed!
• Thursday, November 4th is United PHP Meetup Day.
• NetVibes Personal Home Page.
• Frapper: Put your group on a map.
• Redmond Magazine: The Power Inside – What’s happening at Microsoft Research?
• Markdown Syntax – I enabled the Markdown plugin for WordPress and I am very happy with it. I also hacked the WordPress toolbar to include a prototype “list” item in Markdown syntax to make it even easier to create links. *Don Lancaster’s Guru’s Lair Now has an RSS Feed – Direct link to XML. This is cool, Don’s been one of my heroes since the time that I was a geekly teenager reading his articles in Popular Electronics. I’m still geeky, and he’s still writing.