Serving static content from a cookieless domain is a standard performance best practice, one you’ve surely encountered if you’ve used a performance analysis tool like YSlow or Page Speed. The concept is simple—don’t serve static content like images and stylesheets from a domain that sets cookies—but exactly how to achieve this might not be clear ...
As a precursor to a few posts about Nginx I thought I would outline the steps required to install your own instance of Nginx on WebFaction. WebFaction’s servers include an installation of Nginx that you use whenever you create a “static only” or “symlink to static only” app, and for many things this is ...
A few things aside, the browser is not a terrible canvas for a designer. Sure, there are a lot of unknowns—screen resolution, fonts, operating systems, plugins, connection speed, color profiles, etc—and IE doesn’t make it any easier (OK, so maybe it is a terrible canvas), but on the plus side we’re given a large ...
WebFaction recently added a one-click installer for a Ruby/Rails/Nginx/Passenger stack. I tried it out last week, attempting to install the Rails-based CMS Radiant, but being fairly new to Rails I ran into a number of obstacles. Most of the problems I encountered involved mysterious version conflicts between dependencies and gems existing in multiple ...
A few months ago I made the decision to upgrade from my run-of-the-mill, cheap shared hosting account to something that felt a little more serious. Initially I had planned to move to Media Temple’s Grid service but further research turned up an overwhelming number of bad reviews and seemingly legitimate complaints.
So then I decided to ...
Update (1/31/10): Scroll to the end of the post for an updated version of the code.
A few weeks ago I wrote a post about tracking events in Google Analytics with jQuery. The solution I proposed worked but there was definitely room for improvement. The idea was to tag the links you wanted to ...
Back home in Massachusetts for the holidays. Lots of snow and lots of cold. And an uncommon spell of morning quiet time in which, while trying to think of a better way to capture events in Google Analytics, I ended up comparing and testing different options for handling events, most involving delegation and most involving ...
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