His portfolio reflects years consumed with trekking the globe, but photographer Jauder Ho only rediscovered his love for the art several years ago. Taking advantage of an opportunity for a vacation for the first time in over a decade, Jauder Ho ended up taking a trip to Japan including a trek up Mount Fuji. That followed by the road trip of a lifetime driving across the States had a profound effect on how he perceives the world. Since then, Jauder Ho has seen the world shot by shot, each one serving as a reminder of changing moments in time. In his portfolio, Jauder Ho juxtaposes long exposure shots of beautiful scenery with pictures focused on details that explain more to the story. Jauder Ho strives to take portraits that describe the feelings of his subjects and reflect his ability to arouse emotions from the viewer. Combining skills acquired from continual photography with what it takes to see life on stills, Jauder Ho has created a body of work that reflects the world both great and small. Here, Jauder Ho brings you selected content from his personal collection as well as sharing interesting items found from the Internet. Identica

Jauder Ho - 29th February 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 CSS files now, the default config configuration may not be sufficient.


The following changes should address these issues. Please let me know if you have any questions.


   # output compression saves bandwidth
  gzip  on;
  gzip_http_version 1.1;
  gzip_vary on;
  gzip_comp_level 6;
  gzip_proxied any;
  gzip_types text/plain text/html text/css application/json application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;

  # make sure gzip does not lose large gzipped js or css files
  # see http://blog.leetsoft.com/2007/7/25/nginx-gzip-ssl
  gzip_buffers 16 8k;

  # Disable gzip for certain browsers.
  gzip_disable “MSIE [1-6].(?!.*SV1)”;