Are you a publisher? Try Daylife's Intelligent Content Services Platform
Selected and fresh photos from around the web.
BASRA, IRAQ - OCTOBER 18: People gather around a Land Rover as it arrives at the village Al Houta on October 18 2008 near Basra, Iraq. The trip by the 51 Sqn Royal Air Force Regiment Force Protection Wing was part of a 'key leader engagement' (KLE) visit to the village close to the Basra Airbase to recruit local labour and engage with the village shiek. Visits of this type are seen as key in efforts to continue winning the support of the local Iraqi population. Although improved security in the region has brought some benefits such as improved trade and commerce, much of the infrastructure remains in a poor state of repair. Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown has indicated that the number of UK troops could be scaled down - especially as the security situation in the south of the country continues to improve.
Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) speaks during a campaign rally in the rain at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia, September 27, 2008.
A puppy stands on a truck carrying people to be evacuated from the area in preparation for the approach of Hurricane Gustav in Batabano, on the southern coast of Cuba, August 30, 2008. Powerful Hurricane Gustav roared toward western Cuba on Saturday with 125 mph (205 kph) winds on its way to the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico after a deadly pass through the Caribbean.
BANGKOK, THAILAND - AUGUST 30: A member of Anti-government People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) stands behind barbed wire outside Government on August 30, 2008, in Bangkok, Thailand. The protesters want to unseat the seven-month old coalition government lead by Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej.
Japan's nuclear envoy Akitaka Saiki, center, shakes hands with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill, right, and South Korean counterpart Kim Sook before their meeting at Foreign Ministry in Japan, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008.
A Buddhist monk walks past a barricade set up by anti-government protesters outside Government House in Bangkok December 3, 2008. Anti-government protesters cheered Thai Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat's fall after only two months in power, brought down by a Constitutional Court ruling that disbanded the ruling party for vote fraud. Protest leaders said they would halt all rallies, including crippling occupations of Bangkok's airports which stranded foreign tourists and strangled air-cargo movements.
NEW YORK - DECEMBER 02: Television personality Soledad O'Brien attends the Room to Grow 10th Anniversary benefit gala at Christie's on December 2, 2008 in New York City.
DETROIT - NOVEMBER 20: Shuttered homes and businesses line a downtown street November 20, 2008 in Detroit, Michigan. An estimated one in three Detroiters lives in poverty, making the city the poorest large city in America. The Big Three U.S. automakers, General Motors, Ford and Chrysler, are appearing this week in Washington to ask for federal funds to curb to decline of the American auto industry. Detroit, home to the big three, would be hardest hit if the government lets the auto makers fall into bankruptcy.
Actor Viggo Mortensen gestures during a news conference to promote his latest film "Alatriste" in Tokyo on December 1, 2008. The film will be on the screens on December 13. Alatriste, played in the film by 47 year old US actor, is a unscrupulous 17th century adventurer in the movie, set in Spain's "golden age" under King Philip IV which coincided with the emergence of artistic giants such as Velasquez and the development of the "New World."
Chelsea Clinton (L) and former US President Bill Clinton watch as US Democratic presidential candidate Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) speaks at the National Building Museum in Washington June 7, 2008. Clinton endorsed presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) to be the Democratic U.S. presidential candidate on Saturday and suspended her own White House bid less than a week after the Illinois senator secured enough support to win the nomination. Clinton's endorsement of Obama in a speech at the National Building Museum marked the beginning of efforts to reunite the Democratic Party after a long and divisive campaign battle that ended on Tuesday when Obama won the support of enough delegates to clinch the nomination.
A tear runs down the face of U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) as he speaks about his grandmother who died earlier on Monday, during a campaign rally in Charlotte, North Carolina, November 3, 2008. On the eve of Tuesday's U.S. presidential election, Obama's grandmother Madelyn Dunham died after a battle with cancer.
Shopify uses Ruby on Rails to create their clients' web stores because it enables them to rapidly create and modify online stores with a rich user experience ... We are very pleased to be helping Shopify's many clients this holiday season. RPM is the leading solution for monitoring Rails website performance, and for detecting and solving problems. Using RPM will mean more sales, happier online customers, and greater revenues for these businesses. 
We worked closely with RPM Systems to qualify their high-quality, easy-to-use MPQ in-system programmer ... Cypress is proactively working to have third-party production programming support in place for all programmable devices upon release, and RPM Systems continues to be a worthy partner.
Cypress PSoC devices are designed into a huge range of applications, and we are pleased to offer system designers support throughout the manufacturing process ... RPM Systems is committed to delivering reliable, cost-effective support for PSoC devices.
The wide adoption of any application development platform demands an ecosystem of high-quality tools and vendors ... With a free RPM Lite subscription, Rails developers can now deploy and maintain apps of all sizes, building in performance and scalability from the start. As Rails development and operations teams see their applications grow, they have the opportunity to upgrade to our other subscription-based offerings.
Being without New Relic RPM was like being stuck in a traffic jam, with frustrating lane changes that led nowhere
Before RPM, many of our customers were simply overwhelmed by the volume of error notifications arriving in their inboxes through RSS ... Some had given up reading errors altogether and instead relied on the rate at which their inbox message count increased to indicate a problem. RPM Error Tracking classifies and groups all errors so developers can quickly pinpoint any smoking guns.
Transaction Tracing helped us in a critical moment ... After getting multiple reports of problems with our application's responsiveness, we decided to invest in more hardware. We didn't have the manpower to investigate the problem. Then we tried Transaction Tracing. It did all the work for us, leading us to implement a few key performance improvements. The problems went away, and we haven't had to buy new hardware since.
Beyond building storage products that are technically excellent based on our rich engineering heritage, we also continue to collaborate on a global basis to bring environmentally conscious products to market.
These introductions up the ante in capacity and performance as Toshiba remains focused on designing and developing innovative storage solutions to fuel the next generation of digital products for end users
