Tagged ‘firebug’
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Friday, April 24th, 2009
The problem is that while the info is definitely out there, it's not all in one place (at least as far as I've browsed). Moreover, there are a couple of specific applications of the speed tricks that haven't been clearly laid out before (particularly, applying Cache-Control headers to dynamic images generated by the WordPress Facelift plugin, or the ideal .htaccess settings if your host is MediaTemple). In the interest of time (and laziness, our one true virtue), I've compiled an easy-to-apply series on YSlow that will get your WordPress sped up in no time.
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
When I first starting working at Genuine Interactive, I asked a random question of Genuine's many web-gurus, who know infinitely more about web development than I do. The particular guru I queried was a Lithuanian MySQL database programmer named Jimbo, who in addition to having a penchant for quoting from the movie The Hunt for Red October, often relates to me, in his thick Russian accent, stories of what life was like in Lithuania.
