In response to a Slashdot posting on "The Best of Web 2.0", I visited some of the honored sites. As I'm prone to do when I'm curious about something, on one particular site I went to browse the source and was rewarded with the following:
I'm not particularly interested in the position, so I place the offer here. Enjoy! In a side-note, it's interesting to watch the url, where you can clearly see Meebo's load-balancing at work. Loadinterested in joining meebo? we have full time and internship oppportunities available including front-end software engineer (JavaScript/DHTML/Ajax/C/C++), back-end software engineer (C/C++/networking/databases), and visual designer. email secretjobs at meebo dot com with your resume and cover letter. thanks!
http://meebo.com
and you'll be redirected to some variant of http://www\n\n.meebo.com
, where \n
represents a number (in reg-ex). It seems they're airing their load-balancing for the world to see. I sort of appreciate the open-ness in a way.
On a second note, what the heck is up with compressing the html into a single line? Is this to save on bandwidth or just obfuscate the code? If you happen to know, I'm once again curious
Oh and my apologies to Meebo for airing their secrets...