I used to rely on http://analyze.websiteoptimization.com for analyzing under-performing web pages – and to heighten customer’s awareness of the impact of file sizes and load times. While the tool is great, I never actually took the time to see how well it did its job. Here’s my beef with it at this time: It mightRead more about Web Page Download Size[…]
We’re adding auto-responder and mailing list to the list of services we offer. While we like to develop everything in-house, sometimes its just great to start a package that has everything. After a few searches on the Internet, I ended up with two most likely contenders – both commercial applications. One is Mailing List ManagerRead more about Evaluating autoresponder/mailing application[…]
A few months ago, I’ve had to have a Red Hat Enterprise server built for a client. This was my first “serious” experience with a Linux build other than Gentoo. i had most of the “hard core setup” stuff done by more experienced techs and tried my hand at setting up a few simpler ones.Read more about Migrating to CentOS[…]
Okay, so a few months ago, I mounted a samba drive on my Gentoo machine that linked to a Windows file server I had lying there. Then, I added an rsync task to my backup server – every day, along with other folders, a remote server took backups from the Windows machine through the GentooRead more about Flawed backup strategy[…]
I’m wondering… what are the pros and cons of these engines: awstats piwik Google Analytics Feature-wise, Google Analytics is awesome. One of the drawback is that its hosted “outside”. I’ve been using AWStats for awhile. Its cute, but it is very limited in its tools to analyze data and has no tracking options. Piwik isRead more about Tracking traffic statistics[…]
Technologies DotClear Blog Engine sIFR – Accessible Typography for the Web Tweet! – Twitter jQuery widget Inspiration from Woof DotClear theme Inspiration from Notepad Chaos WordPress theme DotClear plugins @Reply Carnaval CommentLuv emailNotification Subscribe to comments Artwork Wallice Wighthawk rendition from Greywulf Free Skull Vectors from Ben Blogged Free Skull Vectors from Amaya Media FreeRead more about Used on this site[…]
Well, I’ve gone and updated the old blog to the sparkling new version of dotclear. Great thing is that now all of my blogs are centralized. Sweet. Now I can post sparingly from one convenient location! Other noteworthy fact: I’ve just released a DotClear 2 plugin for CommentLuv – check it out.
Well, I learned something today. The XML entity “'” is not displayed properly under IE7. Instead of showing the single quote, as I would expect, it shows “'”. ' works well under FireFox, IE6, IE5, Safari and Opera. But no longer under IE7. The most understandable explanation I’ve found about this is that it isRead more about IE7 And '[…]
I have a few tasks that I run at irregular intervals on some of my servers. Some of them actually eat up quite a bit of CPU – something that I don’t want on certain servers. Running the task when the CPU is normally less used is nice, but I was looking for a wayRead more about limiting CPU usage of a task under Linux[…]
I’m currently playing with various Windows-based software to build songs using my midi controller. My goal is to be able to build songs by myself using samples, loops, midi-based tracks and recording my voice / other instruments. I got myself an M-Audio Oxygen49 midi controller a few months ago. Nice little piece of hardware. I’veRead more about Looking for Music Mixing & Midi Software[…]