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Conditional gzipping with Apache
I’ve never really experimented with some of the more low-level website optimizations (server side stuff, like gzipping, caching and the like), mostly because I’ve never really had to. I’m not a server admin, and my sites don’t generate enough traffic for me to really care about such minor issues. But then I released two little [...]
August 30, 2009
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Why Everybody is Losing the Browser Wars
Recently, I read about RockMelt, an upcoming new browser that is apparently “endorsed” by the guy who started Netscape. The description of RockMelt made me start thinking about how every browser sucks, and why this new one doesn’t appear to be trying to buck the trend of suck. But first, a brief, slightly egocentric history [...]
August 15, 2009
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