Posts Tagged ‘optimisation’

Time to tweak the Honeypot

Well, I took advantage of the fact that I had nowhere to go for my break today and spent some time optimising this blog. You’ll notice it’s much zippier now and that’s thanks to some caching I’ve added. Here are some new plugins I’m using: Bad Behaviour: Deny automated spambots...

Local Searches

A few days ago I was looking for the phone number of a local pizza company here in the IOM called “Home Run Pizza”. I tried that as a search phrase in my favourite search engine and the details came back as: Home Run Pizza 903 W Alameda St Santa...

Inside Myspace

Here’s an excellent article called Inside Myspace by David F. Carr. It traces the steps MySpace had to go through as they grew from a small website to a social network with technology that needs to handle almost 40 billion page requests a month. The article talks about the architectural...

Feedburner feed adjusted

Now that the new blog is up and running, I’ve adjusted the RSS feed to be identical to the old blog. The only way I could have managed to do this is because I’m using the most excellent FeedBurner to serve my feeds. FeedBurner is a website that contains an...

Attract Search Engine Traffic

Came across a good post on how to improve search engine traffic to your website. It breaks down what you need to do into three steps: Make a List of Targeted Keyword Phrases Create an Optimized Page for Each Keyword Phrase on Your List Obtain Quality Backlinks to Each of...

Improve WiFi Reception

Came across a great article today outlining a number of methods to improve WiFi performance. Here’s some ideas to improve your reception: Put large furniture along the walls of your rooms Minimise mirrors Put your router at some central point of your house Keep antennas away from power cables Read...

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