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A deep, practical tour through every caching layer in Drupal — from the render cache to chained fast backends.

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Jun 04, 2013

Father's Day gifts for Web Developers.

Two years ago I became a dad; and, with that I actually started checking into what blogs and techy stores suggest for Father's Day.
#fathers-day
Apr 26, 2013

Flush WordPress rewrite rules through phpMyAdmin

I migrate a lot of WordPress installs from a localhost to the beta server and then to production. It's easy enough to update the URLs in _options and guids in _posts, but the one thing that irritated the hell out of me was the rewrite rules.
#wordpress
Apr 02, 2013

XAMPP MySQL Command Line

MySQL command line allows you to manage your database environment through your terminal, or command prompt for Windows. Typically when you set up a web server you would have installed MySQL as its own service and can easily access the MySQL command line via mysql (mysql.exe).

#mysql  #xampp
Mar 30, 2013

Matt Cutts from Google on WordPress and SEO

This video was recorded from WordCamp 2009 in San Francisco back in 2009. Four years may have passed, but the basics of search engine optimization are still there. I think one of the problems we all face when dealing with SEO is becoming too calculated and analytical instead of trying to be natural - which Google tries to do.
#seo  #wordpress
Mar 18, 2013

A better responsive sidebar

Sidebar content always gives me a little twinge when it comes to responsive design. Typically a left sidebar will end up stacking directly above the content and a right sidebar directly below. This can be fine, unless your left sidebar has 5 different content areas and now the user has to scroll two screen lengths just to read an article.
#css  #responsive-design
Feb 24, 2013

Speed Up WordPress Load Time

I like that WordPress has a built in permalink builder, however I wish it had a built in way of adding your own custom rules. You can, however, write a function to hook with the flush_rewrite_rules() built in WordPress.
#htaccess  #tips  #wordpress
Feb 19, 2013

Modern IE, Aptana and SVN, and Responsive...Fonts?

Here is a quick roundup of some interesting links for just the beginning of the week: modern.ie is a site by Microsoft basically saying "Sorry we've been ruining your life, we're going to act like we know about web standards now."  In all honesty though,  I give Microsoft respect for at least attempting to clean up their previous embarrassments.
#aptana  #css  #internet-explorer  #responsive-design  #svn
Feb 16, 2013

Lorem Ipsum meet BLOKK

Lorem Ipsum is a slew of text that is used as filler content to help flush out a design or concept. It comes in handy when developing websites as well. A designer's template concept is built on a static environment created by them.
#concept-design  #font