Web
WordPress Performance Optimization (from 6 seconds to 1)
Since last week, this blog has a new name and a new look, but most importantly, it now loads faster. Over time I couldn’t but notice that the overall behavior was getting painfully slower. Surely, this blog uses “WordPress Super Cache” plugin but apparently caching wasn’t enough in order to improve performance so I decided [...]
Twitter RSS Feeds – Yes, We Can
Twitter never made it easy to follow people, lists or searches over RSS feed. In every case I had to search and try out various approaches to find those that work. Well, I’m finally able to follow all things Twitter in Google Reader and it just makes one less network to visit. It is sad [...]
Taking notes: Google, Zoho, OneNote, Evernote
A mastery of note taking can not be valued highly enough. Dale Carnegie starts one of his public speaking books written back in 30′s with a full chapter about the importance of taking notes. While I strongly disagree with the “Use any ‘back-of-the-envelop’ kind of paper you happen to find at the moment” approach and [...]
Searching YouTrack with Chrome keyword search
Today’s “Integrating YouTrack in the Search Engines in your Browser” JetBrains TV is about adding YouTrack to Firefox list of search engines using its built-in Open Search support. As I don’t use Firefox, I use Chrome’s “keyword search” to do the same by typing “t query”: “t” search is mapped to “http://evgeny-goldin.org/youtrack/issues?q=%s”.
Zoho Writer – a disappointment :(
For a long time I didn’t quite believe in a Web version of Word. Later, Google Docs and Zoho Writer made me think again, of course. After a while I decided to stay with Zoho and let it keep my textual notes. It seemed like an ideal solution for keeping data online, quickly and readily [...]
Watch out, illegal Jetty URL
Is the following URL legal? http://host?param=value Well, for Jetty 7.x it is not. And I couldn’t understand why before a friend of mine pointed to a missing “/”: http://host/?param=value As it appears, if you have a ContextHandler registered to service “/” requests, as we did, Jetty rejects any of them coming without a slash with [...]
Web reading – 3 simple tricks that actually work
I was looking for a good way to organize my Web reading for years. The problem with the Web, as we all know, it’s just too big. Everything is there and it constantly throws new links on me in masses, never stops, even on the weekends! You get to Twitter for a second and whoops, [...]
Neat Delicious trick – keywords combination
The real beauty of Delicious lies in keywords combinations. I mentioned already that Delicious is my #2 most favorite productivity tool. Within time I developed a set of the most frequently-used keywords in the right column that can be combined with tags in the left column: “hudson” – Mailing list – “ml” “spring” – Issue [...]
WordPress and FeedBurner feed
By default, WordPress generates the following feed link: <link type=”application/rss+xml” href=”http://evgeny-goldin.com/blog/feed/”/> After registering this feed at FeedBurner I wanted “http://feeds.feedburner.com/GoldinTheJunior” to replace the link above. Since my current theme, ChocoTheme, doesn’t provide an option to configure the feed link, I had to make some changes in the code. 1. Changing RSS icon link. “wp-content/themes/chocotheme/header.php”: 2. [...]
Say “No” to ServletResponse.setContentLength()
javax.servlet.ServletResponse.setContentLength(int) is a new kind of Y2k bug. It accepts int assuming no files larger than 2Gb will ever be sent as an HTTP response. If you pass a long larger than 231-1 which is exactly 2Gb, it overflows and negative header is sent in response. Free Download Manager fails to download a file and [...]
