This is a cool utility that uses YSlow! and PhantomJS to measure your site’s speed across many pages. Should be good for identifying slow individual pages as well as practices that impact multiple pages. This is how it works: You feed it with a start URL and how deep you want it to crawl. The […]
Startups today are almost half the size than they were a decade ago. It seems that a lot of the collaborative tools that have emerged over the last year help productivity so you can do more work with less employees. And I don’t think its just true for startups, I know at work we’re doing
This is a good overview of common configurations comparing nginx's syntax to apache's. Once you get used to it, I think nginx syntax is easier to understand, and it reads more like an actual script or program. I've been using nginx to host SoccerBlogs.net for 3 months now and its been very solid. In fact,
Nokia’s N770 and N800 tablet PCs were developed with a conscious decision to use as much open source software as feasible. This decision had tremendous benefits in cost savings, code quality, flexibilty, and zero licensing costs. You can read the white paper HT: Stephesblog. If we compare the code from open source to the
I’ve always had an itch to write a web-based soccer management game, even though there are a number of them already out there like Hattrick There are a lot of intesting probabilistic problems in simulating a soccer match and league season such as: How many, what kinds of attributes to you need to describe players?