Ben Callahan from Sparkbox shared some good links on responsive web design recently, one of them being this introduction to the subject from A List Apart. One of the things that struck me from the article was that “[mobile] browsing is expected to outpace desktop-based access within three to five years.” Another link to Smashing Magazine was a reference of… [more]
Mark Maunder benchmarked several performance tuning measures with a WordPress installation on a VPS server to show which are most effective. The biggest improvements were from installing PHP-APC , setting up Nginx to proxy concurrent connections for Apache, and using MySQL’s query cache.
NPR has a really good article on the absurd state of patents in the U.S. ” ‘We’re at a point in the state of intellectual property where existing patents probably cover every behavior that’s happening on the Internet or our mobile phones today,’ says Chris Sacca, the venture capitalist. ‘[T]he average Silicon Valley start-up or even medium sized company,… [more]
“In the closed-source world, Version 1.0 means ‘Don’t touch this if you’re prudent.’; in the open-source world it reads something more like ‘The developers are willing to bet their reputations on this.’ ” – Eric Raymond, How Fine a Gift?
On its own wp_localize_script() can’t handle multi-dimensional arrays, but you can get around that by encoding the child arrays in JSON . That doesn’t handle HTML content very well, though, so another way to do it is to use the l10n_print_after parameter . That’s kind of ugly, but it seems like the best way available right now. It looks like WordPress 3.3 might have a wp_add_js_data() function , which would be much… [more]
Apache’s default settings assume it’s running under a dedicated box with at least 2GB of RAM, so they don’t perform very well in a VPS that may only have 500MB. I recently made some tweaks to several VPS’s that reduced memory usage by 300-400MB without degrading performance. Apache Performance Tuning is a good article that explains a lot… [more]
I recently setup a VPS on a new OpenVZ node and wanted to use it as a template for future VPS’s created on that node. The instructions in the wiki are actually overkill for this situation; here’s all I had to do: vzctl stop [vps id] Create /tmp/vz-template-exclude.txt and add these lines to it: .bash_history lost+found /dev/* /mnt/* /tmp/*… [more]
