As you know, my current passion tech-wise is static site generators. I'm speaking on it Sunday at NCDevCon. My buddy Brian Rinaldi, another SSG fan, released a free e-book today on SSGs that you can download from O'Reilly right now:
Static Site Generators: Modern Tools for Static Website Development
I did a tech review on this book and it is a great introduction to SSGs. You can read it in about an hour, and it is well worth your time.
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Earlier today I was searching for a refresher on Server Side Includes, an ancient Microsoft technology. I need to output 50,000 articles (pages) a year based around a template and allow them all to be amended if any information, or the template, changes. The key requirement is not to consume any database resource, except at the moment the files are generated. Static pages can be very useful - including consuming static pages as includes. :-)