You ever get the feeling that every idea in the world has been thought of already?
It happens to me every day. My brain's always working on the next "big idea" for us to work on. Once in a while I get that killer idea that I know could ...
It's New Year's Eve. Have you thought about what your website is going to look like tomorrow?
The most common new year gaffe appears in the footer of thousands and thousands of websites, an outdated copyright notice.
Webmasters dutifully put the copyright message in the footer of their website template, but ...
Warning: I'm geeking out for a bit here with a technical entry about editing apache configuration files in Cpanel. I barely found anything out on the Interwebs about this, so I thought I'd document what I learned.
All of our web servers run the CPanel host management software. ...
We use memcached on lots of sites. The beautiful thing is, once you've got a bunch of servers running memcached, it's really easy to cache queries and save some serious database hits.
We use it sometimes when we probably shouldn't. Or at least we should be caching a little ...
After working through my OS X sandbox setup post earlier today, which involves manual setup of the Apache configuration files, I was alerted to a nice little application called Headdress.I gave it a quick demo, and given it's short price tag, I purchased it so I could put it through ...
Last week I wrote about the benefits of setting up a local web development environment, or what developers call a "sandbox". In web developer speak, a sandbox is a server owned by an individual developer where he or she can do all development and testing without affecting anyone else ...
Effective web development depends on having a good environment for working on code, and seeing your changes immediately, while making it easy to test and deploy changes.
There are a number of ways to accomplish this:
I've been developing web sites for many years now. As my aspirations grow, so do the sizes of the projects. And along with that comes more people. For the past few years, I've been working side-by-side with my business partner Damien. Sometimes we're working on our ...
We should all be lucky enough to have performance problems due to heavy website traffic.
"Plan for success" is one of my favorite cliches, and in that spirit, I'm trying to get/stay ahead of the curve on a website that's growing in popularity, BUMPzee.
It not so much BUMPzee's popularity ...
I just realized that I am listening to Cake while developing with Cake. I recommend the combination highly.
I think Marie Antoinette was on to something. or, maybe not.
