Tag Archives: performance

Using YUI components in a templated environment

Posted on April 11, 2008 by Dennis

If you develop sites anything like I do, you’ll end up setting up a site wide layout and theme before you start coding any individual pages. I like to add YUI components where they are useful, but I’ve come across … Continue reading →

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Serving JavaScript Fast

Posted on April 2, 2008 by Dennis

I found this excellent writeup on serving JavaScript files posted on Digg.com. I think I’ll convert some of those ideas to Python but I thought it worth posting here in the mean time with the link to the story. The … Continue reading →

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Making WP-Super-Cache gzip compression work

Posted on November 8, 2007 by Dennis

I was pretty excited to see an update to WP-Cache. The first thing I noticed is that when I enabled the new super cache compression option, I started getting a file save as dialog instead of my pages. As of … Continue reading →

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WP Super Cache – The Ultimate WordPress Caching Plugin

Posted on November 6, 2007 by Dennis

I’ve upgraded my old WP-Cache plugin to this one that I found on Digg.com today. From the Digg.com Post: Tired of clicking a link off the Digg front page only to find a crashed or mortally lagged site on the … Continue reading →

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Fixing Slow Resizing of Windows with Compiz and Emerald

Posted on October 26, 2007 by Dennis

One of the 1st things I noticed after upgrading to AIGLX with the new ATI drivers was that window resizing was incredibly slow. A quick search on Google yielded a LOT of results for the same problem. The first thing … Continue reading →

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Customize your laptop speed for temperature and performance

Posted on October 13, 2007 by Dennis

I while ago, I found a great article on Slashdot that shows how Windows XP manages variable speed CPUs. Well, at least it applies to Intel Speedstep technology. If you have an Intel processor (like the Core 2 Duo T7200 … Continue reading →

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