TagsTagsI originally started writing this Tech Note just to test our new source code formatting feature (powered by jQuery.Syntax), but it turned into more of a tech article than a note. I'll be describing a technique for making pages load faster, that should be of interest to any web developer ...
Tech Note, jQuery, Linux, shell script, CSS, Programming, Compression
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
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. The ...
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 is: ...
LGF, Technology, Apache, shell script, bash, Linux