Just switched to using Comcast’s DNS server. I’ve always ran my own on the local LAN, but trying to reduce server count at home.
Software Development
RailsConf 2008 Recap
We just left Portland today on our continuing Summer of Love trip. You wont find much about Portland from me though. Our stop in Portland for me was a visit to RailsConf 2008. Tammy did post about her thoughts on Portland. It was totally awesome that our good friends, the …
Keep reading · 5 minutes: RailsConf 2008 RecapSite Performance as seen by Google
I mentioned earlier that I had moved my sites over to Slicehost. My reasoning for this was performance. Here is a graph that proves that performance out as seen by the Google robot. This graph shows the response times that Google was seeing when it spidered my site. The crazy …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Site Performance as seen by GoogleSites Now on Slicehost
If you are a regular visitor to my sites you have likely noticed that a couple of months ago things got much faster. You may be thinking that I finally went to my server and hit the turbo button, but not so. I had been hosting all of my sites on Dreamhost. They had a ridiculous …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Sites Now on SlicehostThemes: The Worst of the WordPress Ecosystem
This is frustrating. I’ve spent the last couple of hours trying to find a new WordPress theme for Tammy’s blog, Smaller Than a Redwood. This is so frustrating. First, she can’t do it herself easily because the look of a theme is completely unpredictable of its functionality. I …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Themes: The Worst of the WordPress EcosystemMinnebar 3
- At Intro to iPhone Development session.
- At Screw You, LAMP presentation from Dan Grigsby.
- At WordPress as a CMS session.
See also Minnebar collection.
Power WordPress Presentation Materials
I’m doing my Power WordPress presentation at Minnebar today. I decided to do the presentation today without any slides but instead give everyone handouts with the relevant tips & tricks. To share the wealth here are links to the PDF files for the three sections I’m covering, Performance, Plugin Review and SEO Basics.
Flashback: MarketWatch in Windows 2000 Launch
There are a few points in the history of BigCharts and MarketWatch that I’m especially proud of. Perhaps one of the most prominent ones, and most public, is the inclusion of the BigCharts BigArchitecture (the name we retroactively gave the COM-infrastructure behind MarketWatch …
Keep reading · 3 minutes: Flashback: MarketWatch in Windows 2000 LaunchRealizing how completely opaque, confusing and non-sensical Unix file system permissions can be to non-geeks.
Power WordPress Session at Minnebar
Minnebar is approaching this weekend, May 10th! I’m really excited and I just couldn’t stand to not be presenting this year so I decided to put my name up and do a session on Power WordPress usage. I plan to hit on must-have plugins that can save you a ton of time as well as some …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Power WordPress Session at Minnebar