Kurt gets his Geek-Fu back July 30, 2007
Posted by Kurt in : Uncategorized , 1 comment so farNot entirely sure what it is lately, whether it is the better diet, phase of the moon, or what, but I’ve gotten my Geek-Fu back. I’ve learned a bunch about MySQL in the past few days, created a bunch of indexes to make these blogs work faster. And I used OptiPNG a bunch to crunch down the image sizes.
I’ll be setting up my E3000 soon. It’s been neglected too long. It didn’t help that the CPU/Memory board I got had 2 anemic 167Mhz Ultrasparcs with a total of 128M of memory. I have a new CPU/memory board on its way with 2 400Mhz CPUs, and I’ve got a total of 4G memory coming. With the assorted SCSI disks I have, it should make a pretty kick-ass server. It will probably get some flavor of Solaris on it, since others can run, but I won’t get the full experience without Solaris (Dynamic Reconfiguration, full SMP, etc.).
Compulsively optimizing July 27, 2007
Posted by Kurt in : Uncategorized , add a commentSo, while I’ve done little (read: none) posting so far on this blog, I have been messing with it a bit. Pamela did all the work installing it, a feat of which I’m very proud. I did a bunch of MySQL tuning to make the site perform better.
Then I played with YSlow (Yahoo’s new firefox extension for analyzing website performance) and did some stuff like added expiration tags, gzip encoding, etc.
And then I’ve started looking at making the graphics files with the themes smaller. It’s amazing how many graphics included with various things are often 2-3 times the size they need to be.