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The Right Way to Optimize Apache’s .htaccess Files

June 30th, 2010

While researching Magento performance optimizations you have probably already read about how to optimize Apache’s configuration by moving your configuration directives into the configuration files and out of the .htaccess files. Of course you need root to do this, but assuming you can, there are still very very wrong ways to do this that will result in no real performance gains, leave gaping security holes, and consume more time than necessary. Read on, a handy script for solving these problems and before and after performance benchmarks to prove the gains are included.

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The problem with open source software…

May 6th, 2010

I’ve been using the Mozilla Thunderbird client for several years now and it has served me pretty well. However, one annoyance is that the address book only allows for two email addresses. Thunderbird 3 was released finally in late 2009 and while it was an improvement, it was not ground-breaking (yay for tabs.. err..). Well I finally got fed up with only having two email addresses per contact and started googling in hopes that there was an addon or at least a feature request. Lo and behold there is a bug report for this “feature” (Allow multiple email addresses). Get this:

  • Status: Assigned
  • Importance: 75 votes
  • Reported on: 2002-01-07
  • Target Milestone: Thunderbird 3.0rc1



Looks like it was left out of 3.0rc1 considering I am using 3.0.4. I can’t believe the ticket is over 8 years old!!

/me looks for a new email client

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My humble website is born…

September 11th, 2008

Ok, so what kind of web developer doesn’t have a website? Me, but not anymore. :)

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