12 Things To Make Your Websites FASTER
I have long since been an advocate of proper markup, web standards, and accessibility. Most people at InterWorks don’t know it, but when I go home at night, my relaxation time is figuring out what it takes to make websites load faster. I have ultra high expectations for speed and usability! That said, somebody at […]
Tableau Analysis of Tweets coming out of Iran
Disclaimer: I am purposely withholding a detailed analysis as I do not feel qualified to make statistical judgements about the data, but rather present these graphs in hope that it gives a new and different perspective on the impact that twitter has on spreading information. Like a lot of the rest of the world, I […]
Commit your source code often
When we first began using SVN a few years ago commits typically happened once a day, if that often. Over time we have learned that fine-grained commits offer many benefits over bulk commits, I’ve outlined a few below. Searching commits is easier Committing more often means that you are putting log messages on a smaller […]
RAID Levels Exposed
The term RAID stands for “Redundant Array of Independent Disks,” and it is a way for computer users to gain a lot of storage reliability from ordinary disk drives without having to resort to more expensive components. Better performance and/or capacity is achieved by arranging the disks into arrays consisting of two or more disks. […]
Singletons and Ext.util.Observable
A lot of landboss is built on ASP.NET server controls but also contains a lot of javascript code, ExtJS code to be precise. To get around a lot of the headache synchronizing the server/client relationship we tend to use javascript singletons quite a bit. We’ll have a singleton for the “Page” object, user controls may […]
My experiment with Railo + Tomcat, Part 1: Setup
Today is my 6 month anniversary at Interworks and I’ve decided to commemorate it by showing off some of what I’ve been learning. When I started at Interworks I didn’t know anything about web development and quickly realized I didn’t know much about programming either, so the last six months have essentially been IT/Dev boot […]
Designing for the Web
Over my career, I’ve worked with some great print designers. The work has always been fun, but often difficult; the Web is a very different medium than print when it comes to design. For designers used to the print world, moving to Web design can be a frustrating experience. It’s not that the Web is […]
Vim Color Schemes in Putty
Snippet to enable Vim color schemes in Putty. Put the following in your .vimrc file: if &term =~ “xterm” “256 color — let &t_Co=256 ” restore screen after quitting set t_ti=ESC7ESC[rESC[?47h t_te=ESC[?47lESC8 if has(“terminfo”) let &t_Sf=”ESC[3%p1%dm” let &t_Sb=”ESC[4%p1%dm” else let &t_Sf=”ESC[3%dm” let &t_Sb=”ESC[4%dm” endifendif Below is zenburn color scheme (place in your .vim/colors):
Vim: Cut, Copy, Paste Easily
This has been driving me nuts, there are a million ways to do this, but this is by far the easiest method I have found: Move to the beginning of the block you want to cut/copy and press shift + V for whole lines or CTRL + v. Move to the end of the block. […]
Remote Building Wireless Connectivity Kit
Do you have a site that is just out of reach of your physical network? Maybe a remote warehouse across a field, or maybe two building that are separated by a public street? Getting right-of-way permits and hiring a professional boring company to come in and push underground pipe may be too time consuming and […]
