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A technique I use at LGF to speed up the loading of Javascript files is to run them through a “minifier” script that removes spaces and extraneous formatting such as comments. Combined with server-side gzip compression, this produces the smallest possible download size. (There’s another technique for compressing Javascript called ...
LGF, Tech Note, jQuery, Javascript, Minify, Crockford, Linux, shell script
If you’re a Linux lizard, version 9 of the Fedora Core was released today at the Fedora Project. Everyone in the known universe seems to be downloading it right now; I couldn’t find one mirror site working at better than about 20K/second, so I’m currently downloading the Bittorrent version. It’s ...
LGF, Linux, Technology, fedora
Tonight's geeked out post has to do with the difficulty of safely uploading changed web application files. Pretty sexy, huh? When I make changes to one of the PHP scripts that drive the LGF Blog Engine, the new file has to be uploaded to the LGF web server, of course. ...
Here’s an open thread, as I install the Microsoft Truetype “core” fonts in Ubuntu and Fedora 8. This is the font package that’s on nearly every Mac and PC, including Verdana, Arial, and Georgia — fonts that are used on 90%+ of the web pages in existence, but don’t come ...
I’ve been a bit surprised by the number of LGF readers interested in using the Linux OS as an alternative to Windows or Mac OS. It’s probably happening because the latest versions of Linux distributions like Ubuntu have gotten much easier to install and use, and they typically come with ...
Some observations after a couple of days experimenting with installing different Linux versions under VMware Fusion in Mac OS 10.5.2: * So far, I’ve had the best success with Fedora Core 8 (version 9 is only a few days away), and Ubuntu 8.04. If you prefer the KDE desktop, Kubuntu ...
One of the coolest things about Intel-based Macs is that with the aid of Boot Camp or VMware Fusion, you can easily have several different operating systems running at once, all of them working pretty much at full speed with full compatibility. I’ve had a copy of Red Hat Linux ...
This one’s going to get knee deep in geekspeak before you know it, so feel free to skip over and treat it as an open thread — my feelings won’t be hurt. It’s all about the backups. You don’t know how important they are until some piece of critical hardware ...
Stinky and I are finally getting around to a much needed redesign of the backup system for our MySQL database, to give us regular nightly automatic backups instead of the semi-manual backup we’ve been doing. Imagine the great noise that would issue forth from the lizard army if the server ...
Here’s a totally geeked out way to introduce an open thread. Who knows, this might come in handy for some poor Apache admin out there; it wasn’t easy to find this type of script through Google. It’s no great work of programming art, just a quick, useful hack. What it ...
LGF, Technology, Apache, shell script, bash, Linux
I just spent a couple of hair-pulling hours trying to install HTML Tidy on the LGF web server. Much of that time was spent searching the web for info about installing Tidy, and finding lots of dead ends and instructions that are years out of date. So, in hopes that ...
A midday open thread, in which I ask a question: do any of our geekish readers know if there’s a special procedure to install the latest version of the Tidy utility in Red Hat Linux? I’m compiling it from source, and everything finishes without errors, but the ‘libtidy’ file does ...
LGF, Open Thread, Tidy, Linux