Category: General

  • Get 4 Free Tech Books and Give $29.95 for Aus bushfire relief!

    Sitepoint is offering a “Get 5 eBooks for the price of one” sale with 100% of the proceeds going to support the victims of the Australian bushfire. It’s a good cause, and a great deal. I’m sure you’ll be able to find 5 books that will give you more than $29.95 worth of value, plus…

  • Why Is User Experience Performance So Important?

    In my ATG Performance Tuning post I mentioned that how a user perceives the site performance impacts their behavior on the site, and that a fast site leads to more purchases/traffic/etc… Here are some numbers to back that up: Amazon found that a 100ms increase in page response time led to a 1% DROP in…

  • Comcast 50/10 Service

    Once they got it working (I’m the first in my area to get it so there were a few kinks to be ironed out) is awesome!!!

  • Server Migration

    I’ve just moved a number of websites, web applications, email domains, etc.. to a new server. So if something isn’t working right, please let me know! Ideally things will be faster and more stable.

  • Eclipse, Subversion, and SSH_OPEN_ADMINISTRATIVELY_PROHIBITED

    If you use the Subclipse plugin to access subversion repositories from Eclipse using the ssh+svn protocol, you may see errors like this: SSH_OPEN_ADMINISTRATIVELY_PROHIBITED when you try to do too many things at once. When I tried switching to JavaHL instead of SVNKit, I got different errors, so that was out. Adding this line to my…

  • Apache mod_deflate and mod_cache issues

    The Problem: Using Apache mod_deflate and mod_disk_cache (or other mod_cache) together can create far too many cached files. The Background: Apache is a web server with many different modules you can load in to enhance it. Two common ones are mod_deflate and mod_cache (or mod_disk_cache). Mod_deflate compresses content that is sent to the webserver using…

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