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Paul Lloyd: Fontdeck: Realign, Not Redesign

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The Multipack Presents… Show and Tell, the first event of our new season of Multipack Presents. Paul Lloyd reveals some of the thinking behind the new Fontdeck design, showing some early concepts, and gives a tour of the changes that have been made which have evolved the design they originally launched with.

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Owen Gregory: Music and Grid Systems for the Web

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The Multipack Presents… Show and Tell, the first event of our new season of Multipack Presents. Owen Gregory presents a brief and somewhat tentative exploration of how music intervals (major third, perfect fifth, minor sixth and the like) can be used as the basis for Web site grid design.

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Simon Hamp: Dealing with Big Data

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The Multipack Presents… Show and Tell, the first event of our new season of Multipack Presents. Simon Hamp discusses how he uses PHP, MySQL and Sphinx to process massive XML feeds of millions of products and make them searchable.

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Richard Cunningham: Making MySQL Fast

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The Multipack Presents… Show and Tell, the first event of our new season of Multipack Presents. Richard Cunningham gives a brief introduction to MySQL optimisation, covering the designing of indexes for queries, explaining how to take advantage of clustered indexes but also how to avoid the pitfalls of indexing too much.