Overdosing on the Web

He got away from the state police. He got away with emotional murder. He slipped away with the summer breeze... ♫ [#]

— March 10th via Twitter
RT @Ahvia: had a dream that Conan O'Brien tweeted about his ragnarok character named "mopes"... the sprite looked just like him. it owned. [#]

— March 10th via Twitter
RT @ConanOBrien: http://twitpic.com/17lx53 - I no longer have health care. Could someone show this to a dermatologist and get back to me? [#]

— March 9th via Twitter
RT @chadrem: Me: English is fun. I should learn it someday; @alkah3st: don't worry, it doesn't pay well [#]

— March 9th via Twitter
RT @jimbojive: Ali: I don’t want to be called the captain of the Titanic Jimbo: Would you prefer the Lusitania? [#]

— March 5th via Twitter
Hey remember that time when I would only read, Shakespeare? Hey remember that other time when I would only read the backs of cereal boxes? ♫ [#]

— March 5th via Twitter
What a great Thursday guys. Thanks much :) @prettypublisher @kwithouttwitter @ryanmfadude sleep now. [#]

— March 5th via Twitter
She was this androgynous, powder-nosed girl next door... She had eaten her dog, and she was back for more... Back for more... ♫ [#]

— March 3rd via Twitter
Hell, he's an intergalactic mobster. He took a freight cruiser into the lower orbit of our planet, that's how he got his fat ass down I4. [#]

— March 2nd via Twitter
I would like to re-watch Dark City. [#]

— March 2nd via Twitter

Tagged ‘minified’

The Unavoidables: Don’t Make Me Download a Lot of Crap; or, Sometimes You Just Deserve an F From YSlow, You Shameless Self-Promoter

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

In all seriousness, however, Yahoo! recommends some (semi-doable) solutions. One idea is to combine all your CSS background images into one enormously fat image, and then use background-position to display portions of that image in different visual areas of the page.
Nobody Wants to See Your Whitespace: Minify CSS and Javascript using Yahoo!’s UI Compressor

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

Beating rule #10 is easy. We want to serve CSS and Javascript that has been minified (and obfuscated, if you please) to our readers, because that's less overhead for them to download. We also want to do it without screwing up our code, so I recommend using Yahoo!'s UI Compressor.