Will CloudFlare really improve your WordPress site’s performance or are CloudFlare’s speed claims just empty hype.
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WordPress Performance Tips for Big Sites
Tips on how to troubleshoot WordPress performance and optimize it for speed.
VPN for OS X: Witopia 2012 review (from a three year user)
The Witopia Personal VPN is a great value, but watch out for tech support issues with WiTopia Pro OpenVPN SSL account. Same fast speeds on both.
Laptops for Schools: Microsoft Windows, Apple or Linux
If you had to buy 1700 laptops for a school one to one program, you have a budget to enhance drivers and open source and still save money.
Thanksgiving: Making a Better World
Heroic work at great personal sacrifice are what makes hope possible. It is an honour to support such work.
People who buy iPhones are image-conscious fad-following idiots
Samsung smartly shows iPhones are for pretentious wannabes who are behind the times.
WordPress images uploaded by client too large? try Imsanity
Imagine that someone created a plugin which would resize huge images to the maximum size used on your site.
Textile: How to write in the world’s greatest markup language
I often have to introduce our team to Textile formatting and our clients. I’ve linked to the other great Textile documentation out there.
HighriseHQ issues: Why can’t we create a new Deal from dashboard?
How can 37signals cripple the dashboard File option for Deals by not allowing us to create a new Deal and file the item directly?
Textile Editing on OS X: BBEdit, iTextile, MarkMyWords
So for non-programmers, here’s how to get Textile editing working on BBEdit. Review of other OS X textile solutions.
Searchlove 2011 Foundation Bar 24 October
Search Love Conference London 2011 – Day Two
Despite potential hangover from the last nights party, everybody came thrilled to the second day of Search Love Conference in London.
SearchLove Conference London 2011 – Day One
Behind the scenes in SEO from Distilled and SEOmoz. Practical advice for SEO and a glimpse into the future of search.
WordPress SEO plugins review: All in One SEO, Platinum, Yoast compared
You shouldn’t have to worry about your SEO plugin deindexing you. Training users shouldn’t take longer than 15 min. SEO shouldn’t be dangerous.
Balancing life and work as an entrepreneur
What’s your best advice for balancing life and work as an entrepreneur? Forget it.
Latin1 to UTF-8: A single query to find all the Latin1 database tables
We’ve found that even WordPress sites which are principally already UTF-8 have the odd Latin1 table sneaking into them. Here’s how you find them.
Apple Mail: Fixing Broken IMAP accounts after a server move
Trouble with your IMAP after a server move? Here are the setting you need to change in Apple Mail to save messages properly.
Basecamp Mobile Platform Subscribes Everyone. Note to 37 Signals: Mobile has to work to be useful
With up to 20 people on a single project, spanning design, programming, SEO and content, notifying everyone is a nightmare.
IE 9 Javascript Issues: Failsafe Release of Foliopress WYSIWYG
“Not enough storage is available to complete this operation.” There’s something strange with IE 9 javascript. Here’s how to keep using Foliopress WYSIWYG.
Focus in Business Means Leaving Money on the Table: Apple
Apple stay focused and are the second largest company in the world, leaving long time rivals at Microsoft and new rivals at Google in their dust.
