Interesting tidbits from around the web (September 19th):
bnbeckwith's writegood-mode at master - GitHub - an emacs mode to help you write better
3 shell scripts: Kill weasel words, avoid the passive, eliminate duplicates - code to help you write better
[Phoronix] PostgreSQL 9.0 Is Now Available - postgresql 9.0.0 is making it's way onto FTP servers, probably official announcement soon
adamhunter's wp-cap at master - GitHub - capistrano recipes for wordpress
…. The companies today released new Cookbooks for automating Drupal and WordPress deployments on Windows Azure. Opscode also announced today that Chef provides integration with the new, generally available, version of Windows Azure Infrastructure Services. By combining Opscode Chef with Windows Azure, users can automate everything from server provisioning and configuration management to continuous delivery of infrastructure and applications.
Demonstrating the New …
- AkitaOnRails.com - English: Cooking Solo with Chef
- Momoro Machine: Getting started with Chef -- A tutorial
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Using Chef for DevOps Innovations
- Rails Dog: Generating Thousands of PDFs on EC2 with Ruby
- New Relic: Community News: Improving JavaScript performance, introducing @devops_borat, and more
- Kalzumeus Software: Staging Servers, Source Control & Deploy Workflows, And Other Stuff Nobody Teaches You
One of my favorite conferences every year is Microconf , because it focuses on small software businesses, which is where my heart and soul is businesswise. I know a lot of folks can't justify a trip out to Vegas (though you should really come in 2014 if you possibly can — 2013 is only a few days from me posting this and already quite sold out), so I always ask Rob and Mike (the organizers) for a copy of my video so I can produce a transcript and put it online. My 2012 talk …
- danwebb.net - Home: @media Ajax
- ZURB: Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne: From Dot Com Bust to IPO in 3 Years
- Merbist: About management
- Article RSS Feed: June 2009 Meeting
- Patrick Lenz: Proper Language Detection on the Web
- Software by Rob: Crowdsourcing Your Product Name
…partnering with WordPress to integrate their technology directly into the WordPress VIP platform.
About Katherine Hague
Kathering Hague: Founder/ CEO, ShopLocket
Katherine has worked as an independent digital media consultant and in a variety of Marketing positions for Toronto-based startups. The idea of ShopLocket came to Katherine as she was faced with a seemingly simple problem: selling a few products online through her existing online channels. Not finding a …
- Global Nerdy: A Great Time at TechCrunch Toronto Last Night
Conclusion
Ultimately, it doesn't take a lot of effort or technical knowhow to speed up your WordPress blog. Give these techniques a try and don't forget to test your site's performance as you go. Have any WordPress optimization tips of your own? Share yours in the comments below.
The post How to Speed Up WordPress in 7 Easy Steps appeared first on New Relic blog .
- Paul Gross's Blog: Migrated blog from Mephisto to WordPress
- Viget.com Blogs: Lafayette on WordPress
- Lindsay Holmwood - auxesis' musings: Markdown gets top marks
- : Rails 2.3.4 and SWFUpload - Rack Middleware for Flash Uploads that Degrade Gracefully
- Patrick Lenz: Search Your Blog with SearchPath
- Mike Perham: Apache Tuning
* Integrate New Relic right into the WordPress Administration panel with W3 Total Cache and make scaling and troubleshooting WordPress easier than ever. All W3 EDGE customers get New Relic Standard free of charge.
The post Partner Spotlight: News from Cedexis, Joyent, RightScale & More appeared first on New Relic blog .
- MySQL Performance Blog: Percona Server and XtraBackup available on Solaris
- Ruby Inside: This Week in Ruby: Rails 4 Sneak Peeks, A Gist Drama, and a CoffeeScript Book (by a Rubyist!)
- DigitalHobbit: It's been a while...
- JJinuxLand: JavaScript: A Second Impression of NodeJS
- High Scalability: Sponsored Post: Joyent, Membase, Appirio, CloudSigma, ManageEngine, Site24x7
- I can't code! Now what?: Rails can't scale alone.
…SearchPath comes with a trial limited to 2 search results and is $ 8 per month for a full account. Yearly subscriptions are 20% off.
Give it a try using the search form in the right sidebar on this site.
And there are a lot of Internet-famous supporters like Brett Terpstra , who recently converted from WordPress to a custom install of Jekyll . ↩
- SKORKS: How To Fix The WP-Syntax Special Character Escaping Issue
- Global Nerdy: PressHarbor Rocks!
- Edge Rails.info: EdgeRails.Info Is Live
- : Wordpress Hosting on Rackspace Cloud Sites
- Zerosum Dirt(nap): More Jekyll, Less Hyde
- Dmitry Belitsky: Fresh design for belitsky.info
I greatly admire what WordPress did for the web; to say that we want to be the WordPress of forums is not a stretch at all. We're also serious about this eventually being a viable open-source business , in the mold of WordPress . And we're not the only people who believe in the mission: I'm proud to announce that we have initial venture capital funding from First Round , Greylock , and SV Angel . We're embarking on a five year mission …
- Coding Horror: Why Ruby?
- Giles Bowkett: A Few Problems With "GitHub Is My Resumé"
- Global Nerdy: FizzBuzz Still Works
- ZURB: Influencers Answer: Is It Complex to Create a Simple Product?
- Lessons Learned: Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more)
Ruby on Rails lacks a CMS with the mindshare of, say, WordPress, which is good, because every unpatched Ruby on Rails CMS delivered to a non-technical company to serve as their website or backend to their mobile application will be compromised .
There are many developers who are not presently active on a Ruby on Rails project who nonetheless have a vulnerable Rails application running on localhost:3000. If they do, eventually, their local machine will be compromised . (Any …
- WyeWorks Blog - The Team's Voice: Rails 4 in a MindNode
- CRAZ8: Announcing the Faster Rails Newsletter
- The Pug Automatic: Why mixed responsibilities resist refactoring
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: An eCommerce Refactor: Cleaning up a Common Pattern in a Rails eCommerce App
- Matthew Bass: Excluding iPads from the mobile-fu Rails plugin
- Hobo Blog: Learn Hobo and Write Documentation
Note: This blog post comes to us from Peter Meth of True North PHP. Check it the original post here .
When I decided to start blogging I was faced with some choices. The first choice to be made was which blogging software to use. I have had some experience using Wordpress and have never been too happy with it. I have also used Joomla, which I don't think is too well suited to blogging. I figured I would give Drupal a try. It was ok, but ultimately left me with the same feeling as Wordpress.