I have reluctantly been using TextMate for a couple weeks. No text editor can ever take the place of Vim, but there are several features that attracted me to TextMate. So far I am impressed, and TM makes editing HTML and CSS a snap. I will write about my experiences when time permits, but for [...]
According to Dreamhost, the slowdown my site experienced earlier was due to “IO requests getting backed up due to networking issues between [my] HTTP server and the File server.” Things are fine now; let’s hope they stay that way.
Every page on my site is taking for-flippin’-ever to load. What’s the deal?! Sent support request to Dreamhost… 4 hours 27 minutes later and not a word. Tweaked wp-cache and enabled FastCGI, but still no joy. Are all the rants about Dreamhost right?
I know I’m not the first, but a recent experience taught me a valuable lesson: There is no “undo” button when posting a comment to someone else’s weblog. Stumbling upon a post offering what I thought was a bad piece of advice, I felt compelled to inflict my personal opinion on the site owner. While [...]
Rushi quickly reviews a couple of weblog clients, or “blog editors”.
Lifehacker shows you how to back up del.icio.us bookmarks on your blog. As the article points out, aside from backups, there are other benefits to doing this: It also kills two birds with one stone: participate in the del.icio.us community AND update your blog daily with one del.icio.us post. This is a “no-hassle” solution done [...]
If you want to simplify delivery, management, and analysis of your site’s feeds, FeedBurner is a great solution. This page will give you a quick summary of what FeedBurner is about. One of my favorite features (complete list of features) is SmartFeed™, an option that provides a subscriber-aware version of your feed to an aggregator, [...]
Cool extension – Performancing for Firefox
