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Preload flash .flv files into browser cache

How I was able to preload many flash flv and swf files on one of my clients sites that has a lot of online video and relatively small traffic. Their site visitors would usually watch 3-10 videos per visit and so to make the videos load almost instantly on every page I came up with a way to preload the top 10 .flv files and the swf flv player files as soon as the visitor successfully started watching the 1st video. Of course I also setup .htaccess caching on the server so that once they downloaded the files into their cache they would never request them from the server again. I was having fun with this so its pretty funky and uses some really cool combinations of javascript, swf preloader from xml, css classes to help automate it all..

Posted in Optimization | Published on February 4, 2008 |4 Comments »

Come On and Sprite for your Website

Let me show you an example that works so well I am using it right now on my site. Every page in fact. If you are a young or up and coming web developer with skills to pay the bills, lets make the future Net fast, learn about optimization and refactoring while you still have the chance.

Posted in CSS | Published on January 16, 2008 |No Comments »

Surf the net anonymously with Tor

Tor is a network of virtual tunnels that give you a very good level of anonymity, using Tor with privoxy and FoxTor for firefox gives you privacy at the touch of a button.

Posted in Software | Published on January 2, 2008 |2 Comments »

Apache Directives and Modules on DreamHost

Apache .htaccess Directives and Loaded Modules allowed on DreamHost Apache Server 2 Setups.

Posted in Hosting | Published on November 23, 2007 |No Comments »

The Diary of An American Witchdoctor

Just wanted some bandwidth-free music for the home page~

Posted in Web Design | Published on October 30, 2007 |No Comments »

SEO with Robots.txt

Very nice tutorial dealing with the robots.txt file. Shows examples for google and other search engines. Wordpress robots.txt and phpBB robots.txt sample files.

Posted in SEO | Published on October 20, 2007 |22 Comments »

CSS Background Image Sprites

Using a CSS Background Image Sprite with the CSS background-position and background-image I can display all these icons: . I can even have them show up anywhere on the page!

Posted in CSS | Published on October 8, 2007 |6 Comments »

Speed Tips: Turn On Compression

Use the Apache module mod_deflate to compress your static .css and .js files, speeding your site up like crazy!

Posted in Htaccess | Published on September 5, 2007 |29 Comments »

Want to know how to really hack?

An interesting post by a computer hacker explaining how to really hack.

Posted in Hacking | Published on July 22, 2007 |8 Comments »

Speedier Sites use CSS Sprites

An Image Sprite is simply multiple images combined into one image. Using the background-position in CSS you can display a specific image from the image sprite.

Sprites reduce the number of files that are requested and downloaded by site visitors, resulting in noticeable decreases in Page-Loading times, Bandwidth usage, and Server loads.

Posted in CSS | Published on May 4, 2007 |4 Comments »

Serve Alternate Content based on Time

TIME_DAY Time RewriteCond Time-dependant rewriting uses mod_rewrite and apache server time variables to display different files depending on the time, while the URL stays the same. An often requested implementation of this is to display a different home page or image depending on if its morning, noon, or night.

Posted in Htaccess | Published on February 11, 2007 |1 Comment »

Apache Web Server Speed Configuration Hacks

Apache server performance can be improved by adding additional hardware resources such as RAM, faster CPU, etc.

Posted in Optimization | Published on January 25, 2007 |4 Comments »

.htaccess – Wikipedia

.htaccess (Hypertext Access) is the default name of Apache's directory-level configuration file. It provides the ability to customize configuration directives defined in the main configuration file. The configuration directives need to be in .htaccess context and the user needs appropriate permissions.… Read the rest

Statements such as the following can be used to configure a server to send

Posted in Htaccess | Published on January 3, 2007 |1 Comment »

Running a Reverse Proxy in Apache

In 2003, Nick Kew released a new module that complements Apache's mod_proxy and is essential for reverse-proxying. Since then he gets regular questions and requests for help on proxying with Apache. In this article he attempts to give a comprehensive overview of the proxying and mod_proxy_html

This article was originally published at ApacheWeek in January 2004, and moved to ApacheTutor … Read the rest

Posted in Hosting | Published on |12 Comments »

Caching Tutorial for Webmasters

If you examine the preferences dialog of any modern Web browser (like Internet Explorer, Safari or Mozilla), you'll probably notice a 'cache' setting. This lets you set aside a section of your computer's hard disk to store representations that you've seen, just for you. The browser cache works according to fairly simple rules. It will check to make sure that the representations are fresh, usually once a session (that is, the once in the current invocation of the browser).

Posted in Optimization | Published on January 2, 2007 |1 Comment »

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