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What's the technology behind the site? Great design as well... how did you get to be a coder and a designer at the same time?

Alas I'm still 90% coder, 10% designer. The current site is the third iteration of the layout.

If I wasn't too stingy to pay a designer, I would :)

So how do you scrape the sites and how do you store the data?