Archive for the 'Web Authoring' Category

Save Bandwidth and Speed Up Your Site With Apache 2 and mod_deflate

Friday, November 3rd, 2006

If you’re a website operator or up-and-coming blogger, you may have noticed your bandwidth bills growing larger each month. Fortunately, there’s a very easy way to transparently compress your pages and save bandwidth and download time for you and your visitors. Version 2 of the Apache web server features a module called “mod_deflate”, [...]

Blake Ross of Firefox Fame Has a New Project: Parakey

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

IEEE Spectrum has a great 4-page article about a new project from Blake Ross.  His idea seems very similar to Adobe’s Apollo project.  It seems that cross-platform, “sometimes connected” web/desktop applications are “coming things“.  The article is a little long, but a very interesting read.
Read more: IEEE Spectrum: The Firefox Kid

37Signals Releases Free Version of "Getting Real”

Thursday, October 26th, 2006

I picked up “Getting Real” from 37Signals back when it was first released as a PDF book. It was well worth the $19 price tag. The book is packed full of useful insights into starting and running your own web business.
I’ve recommended the book to several people (you know who you are), but [...]

Some Interesting Website Statistics

Monday, July 10th, 2006

W3Counter - Global Web Stats
I hope some people will take Firefox’s 25% market share as a sign to quit making their sites compatible only with IE (um, are you listinging Yahoo!?).

Very Nice Tutorial for Rails Beginners

Tuesday, April 11th, 2006

Robert Evans has written a very good tutorial for people who’d like to get their feet wet with Rails. The tutorial walks you through creating a very simple application, while touching on some basic Rails concepts. If you’re new to Ruby on Rails, I would recommend this tutorial. If you like what [...]