Apache 101 - Cache Control

Continuing with my Apache series, I'll be today talking about cache control.

According to Wikipedia, the definition for cache is:

"a collection of data duplicating original values stored elsewhere or computed earlier, where the original data is expensive to fetch (owing to longer access time) or to compute, compared to the cost of reading the cache. In other words, a cache is a temporary storage area where frequently accessed data can be stored for rapid access. Once the data is stored in the cache, it can be used in the future by accessing the cached copy rather than re-fetching or recomputing the original data."

We are going to be using two different modules here mod_expires and mod_headers. They handle cache control through http headers sent from the webserver.

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  comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 10:45 AM - Categories: VPS

Sync your iPhone with Outlook (or Google) Calendar

We all know how painful it is to keep up to date with our meeting and obligations. I've recently been thinking of a nice way to sync my calendars from work and personal into a single account.

I then had a very specific spec for it, which is as follows:

• I need to get my calendar pushed to my iPhone;
• The calendar must be a merge of my personal calendar, and my business calendar;
• I still want to be able to pick up my google mail emails;
• I DO NOT want it to pick up my business emails (as I prefer to pick them up another way);
• The calendar must be available anywhere and at anytime

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  comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 11:00 AM - Categories: Technology | General Techie Stuff

Apache 101 - Compressing Files

I'm going to start a server configuration series here, where I'll be talking about my goals and frustrations when configuring my own webserver. As most of you know, I've been using my own VPS for the last two weeks, and promised to post everything about it here.

I won't be covering things like basic installation, or server set-up. there's tons of them all over the web, and I 'm sure most of them would beat anything I wrote here, as some of those guys are real *nix gurus, while I'm only a learner.

On this post, I'll be talking a little bit more about Apache2, and it's configurations; to start with, I'll talk about file compression.

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  comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 10:24 AM - Categories: VPS

BeerMe v0.2

This is a quick  update for this plugin.

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  comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 8:53 AM - Categories: Mango Blog

My first mango plugin: BeerMe?

Yes, I went on and got into Mango's plugin development. Basically on Saturday I was a bit bored monitoring my new server's performance, and decided to look at plugins development for Mango Blog.

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  comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 10:15 AM - Categories: Mango Blog

Learning jQuery 1.3 - Book Review

Book reviewer Marcos Placona | Publisher: Packt. Author(s): Jonathan Chaffer, Karl Swedberg

This book is aimed to jQuery beginners, or for those with more experience who need an extra help on that difficult situations.

You probably read my review of Learning jQuery back in 2008 where I described every single feature on each of the chapters.

This time, I'm not going to describe every single chapter, as I think it would be pretty much a repetition of the previous review, but adding a few things. I still think this book is a must if you want to learn jQuery, or even if you are familiar with the library.

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  comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 7:27 PM - Categories: JQuery | Book Reviews | Books | Javascript

File extension series. Part VII (MODD)

Continuing my series, now on it's part 7, I'll be talking here about the File Extension MODD.

A little description on the File Extension MODD:

The .modd file extension is used to represent a companion data file to a video encoded in a proprietary format by the Sony company, which is used by many of their massive line of digital video recording equipment. For viewing and conversion this type of video file, designated extension ".m2t", must be viewed in the program that was intended to decode it, Sony's Motion Picture Browser. From within this program, the video can either be watched as it is or made accessible to other various video playing and editing software through a conversion process to the Microsoft Windows audio and video format, ".wma".

Posted by Marcos Placona at 6:37 PM - Categories: Review