The unreliable Internet Explorer

(Photo: BlubrNL)

I was stuck with this problem today, and thought I should write a blog post about it, so should anyone encounter the same thing, they won't waste time trying to track exactly what's happening.

Basically it was flagged to me this morning by my project manager that when you tried to submit a form that calls for a report generation using the enter key, the report would not be generated.

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  comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 12:29 PM - Categories: Website Optimization | Technology

Updating Java on Centos

(Photo: tutchiio)

I'm only writing this blog post because I usually try to keep my VPS up to date, and usually one of the things I have to do to accomplish such thing is updating the Java version.

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  comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 12:00 PM - Categories: Website Optimization | Linux | General Techie Stuff | Technology

I truly hate you IE!

(Photo: Kay Kim)

I just came across a very interesting bug on my website. I've made a post on twitter today asking the local CSS gurus if they knew of any way to fix this:

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  comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 11:00 PM - Categories: Website Optimization | Technology

Speed up yor website - Part 2 - The Free CDN

To continue with our series of website optimization tricks, I'll talk a little bit more about Content Delivery Network (CDN), and will talk you though the steps of creating a totally free CDN for your website.

Basically, as I've already stated on my previous post, a CDN is an external network which specializes in serving static content. It normally consists of a few servers spread around the world, so the data will travel the shortest route to get to their destination based on Geolocation.

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  comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 2:20 PM - Categories: Website Optimization | General Techie Stuff | VPS | Technology

Speed up yor website - Part 1

Assets such as stylesheets, images and videos are often the major hit taken by a webserver when a webpage is loaded. I'm often trying to improve my page loads by using published pages (flat html) and rewrites, so I don't need to run a dynamic page when it's not necessary.

Publishing usually brings a great deal of improvement, and browser cache often helps a lot too, but sometimes you just need to load assets on every single page load, and if you have lots of new users every day, browser cache will usually do very little, as this new users will need to hit the webserver and get the images for the first time in order to have it cached.

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  comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 2:20 PM - Categories: Website Optimization | General Techie Stuff | VPS | Technology