March 2008
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gzip compression with nginx
As you may know, nginx is a fairly new web server alternative to Apache and rapidly gaining popularity with Rails implementations Starting with Ezra’s nginx config, I noticed that gzip compression was set to be on for all browsers. However, this is incorrect as older versions of IE (before IE SP1) do not properly handle gzip compression. Additionally, with the use of larger javascript and...
February 2008
Links for 2008-02-27 [del.icio.us] →
Developing a Rails model using BDD and RSpec, Part 1 — Luke Redpath
Sigma DP1 Official Sample Images. Impressive. http://snurl.com/20kfh
Upgraded to Adobe AIR 1.0 and twhirl 0.6.3. Seamless experience. I’m happy.
Links for 2008-02-26 [del.icio.us] →
QuarkRuby: Sessions and cookies in Ruby on Rails
Editing CSS for IE is like trying to hang a picture in a room with no lights.
Snoop Dogg is on Twitter!!
Looking at capistrano recipes. Unfortunately, there is hardly any documentation. Typical for rails/ruby type apps as I am discovering.
Sprint’s new portal is completely and utterly broken.
And to top it off, Sprint seems to have forgotten to notify their partners that their system has changed. Now billpay from BofA is broken.
With all this technology, sketching out ideas via pen and paper still works the best. Besides, just found my 20+yr old pencil sharpener. =)
Language is tad strong but some good thoughts on stats here. http://snurl.com/202ou
Why everything is still not at a minimum utf8 blows my mind.
Rearranging divs. Move. Stack. Align. Repeat. Overlap. Drat.
To only deliver gzip content to IE6 SP1 above using nginx, use gzip_disable “MSIE [1-6].(?!.*SV1)”; FTW. What other browsers need this?
Dearth of nginx configs esp ones that deal with gzip, Vary headers and different browsers. Whatcha got?
Links for 2008-02-19 [del.icio.us] →
Caching Tutorial for Web Authors and Webmasters
brian - Cacheable Flash
Good way to do page caching for a landing page. Have your cake and eat it!
htaccess Caching
jcole’s weblog: Jeremy Cole’s take on life. » Blog Archive » On efficiently geo-referencing IPs with MaxMind GeoIP and MySQL GIS
HowtoServeStaticFilesFromAmazonsS3 in Ruby on Rails
[Mishoo] IE: Popularity theft
Koz...
Wondering if you can sell a car via Twitter. Blk 91 Maxima (stick) 100k miles. Gd condition. KBB says $2280. Selling for $2k obo. San Mateo.
Links for 2008-02-17 [del.icio.us] →
The jSkinny on jQuery — err.the_blog
Ajax will_paginate, jq-style — ones zeros majors and minors
Vitamin Features » 5 Ways to Optimize AJAX in Ruby on Rails
Documents about MySQL query optimization
File Upload Fu
Links for 2008-02-16 [del.icio.us] →
36 Startup Tips: From Software Engineering to PR and More! - ReadWriteWeb
FAQ / memcached
Pixels and Politics: Rails SQL Optimization
the { buckblogs :here }: Skinny Controller, Fat Model
Has_many_polymorphs - File: README
growing up your acts_as_taggable :: snax
Web Caching with Consistent Hashing
Overheard: Why do they call it sushi instead of fish? OMFG.
FF3 bug. Recently closed tabs functionality seems to be busted. Erk.
Links for 2008-02-15 [del.icio.us] →
Fred’s Blog: Capistrano 2.1 and Ultrasphinx
Get Your Caffeine On
DRY Association acts_as_cached
UnderstandingPolymorphicAssociations in Ruby on Rails
HowToUsePolymorphicAssociations in Ruby on Rails
Potential uses for tagging, groupable, befriendings
ManytoManyPolymorphicAssociations in Ruby on Rails
Many to many associations.
be the fastest you can be, memcached :: snax...
Really wishing that del.icio.us FF extension ported to FF3. FF3 is SO much faster than FF2.
Prodding mongrels with a stick.
Chicken shawerma with hummus and fried potatoes inside = very tasty lunch.
FF3beta3 feels a LOT faster. Impressed.
Mac OS suddenly decided to switch VoiceOver on resulting in maddening rectangle. Bad Mac!
At brother’s wedding. Jimmy and Eileen got married!!!
Was just @ Seesmic. Employee there has a Seesmic tattoo. Wild!
Suffering in CSS hell. CSS + IE is just sadistic.
next.yahoo » Blog Archive » Big Data: Viewpoints... →
Late night again. Finishing up presentation.
Links for 2008-02-04 [del.icio.us] →
The Left Menu 2 column Liquid Layout. Pixel widths. Cross-Browser. Equal Height Columns.
Checking out twhirl. Like the multiple account support.
Not a very exciting Superbowl so far. Half time show starting.
Superbowl starting. Go Pats! BTW Sigma DP1 sample image gallery on dpreview. http://www.dpreview.com/news/0802/08020301sigmadp1gallery.asp
Wow. That was unexpected. Giants did deserve the game tho. They were the better team.
Over 500k views on Flickr. Woohoo!
