Nothing like listening to the whirl of your hard drive as the progress bar in your browser slowly creeps forward. There are so many pitfalls which designers and coders fail to see when designing a website. CMS users beware, you too could be a victim. I have seen many articles on increasing performance as well as lists which show the “Top 10″ items, they are all great but let’s be serious for a moment.
Misuse, abuse, overuse, and just plain ignorance results in slow loading sites, these are not all the same. Sure there is poor code out there, but it can run better and faster than a clean written site when many obstacles are overcome. As high speed internet takes over and bandwidth becomes second to file size we can not lose focus on what is slowing our sites down.
For those who don’t like to read, a top 10 list is at the bottom
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It is that time of year, the Less Conf is now registering with some perks! If you are one of the first 200 guests to register you have the option to eat lunch with one of the speakers! The guests this year include Gary Vaynerchuk of WineLibrary, Derek Sivers of CDBaby, Mike McDerment of FreshBooks, Kevin Hale of WuFoo, Des Traynor & Eoghan McCabe of Contrast i.e., David Hauser of Grasshopper, and a special guest which is still unannounced.
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Since the iPhone many cell phone manufacturers are developing their own version of app stores and creating mobile content to try and attract a larger user base. Blackberry (RIM) has made some drastic changes, until recently their mobile phones came with a bite sized amount of memory that could be used for applications. Now that the iPhone and similar phones are out they have bumped their internal memory way up and added microSD capabilities to try and compete.
There comes a time where you feel like shoving your head in a car door and slamming it repeatedly, this is that time. Mod_Rewrite made easy, as easy as it gets I guess, it’s like saying “Learn Quantum Physics in 24 Hours”. Well maybe that is not a fair comparison, either way if you are not familiar with regex and/or you are trying to implement mod_rewrite into an existing site you may need to set plenty of time aside to get it all working correctly.
