Programming

WicketPixie 2.0 Dev Blog: Images are out, CSS is in

Ah, it is Christmas Break at last, and that means it is time to get cracking on WicketPixie 2.0!
I decided not to release version 1.2. While it was working properly (I am running a Release Candidate on my blog right now), Chris, myself, and others agreed on the fact that it was getting cluttered and [...]

5 PHP Performance and Optimization Tips

Speed is important to me. So important, in fact, that I do my best to optimize my programs like crazy. I’m always reading and learning new methods on how to perform some task quicker. I’ve also done my best to use these methods in WicketPixie (despite it’s bugs, heh).
Anyways, here are 5 tips I follow [...]

Speed Up Your Site By Moving JavaScript Down

One day, I was looking for a way to speed up the page load times of my blog. I changed many things, but one of the most useful in WicketPixie’s case was moving links to JavaScript files down to the bottom of the page.
Let me first explain why moving links to scripts down to the [...]