To create Content/News Websites, Word Press is indisputably one of the best websites and blogging applications. Through the modular structure and the myriad of plugins, it offers much functionality and flexibility simultaneously. Since we use WordPress for many projects, both for customers and hemju sites, we evaluate and test many plugins. Especially in the performance/caching area, we tested [...]
Although (or perhaps because of?) it is getting colder outside every day, it seems that the Linz software scene gets hotter each day. Successful (running and sports portal www.runtastic.com), promising (www.wappwolf.com), and mysterious (next generation of Internet payment www.jumio.com) Start-ups appeared in the last year. Besides, the more practical (or should I say business) software development, there is [...]
Rails 3.1 will come with some great performance improvements. One of the features is called “Automatic Flushing”. See how Rails 3.1 will make your site faster
Like I mentioned in my last article, I currently use Redis/Resque quite a bit. The installation of Redis isn’t really a challenge and Resque isn’t more than a requirement in the Gemfile. However, I often forget that when I start a Resque worker, it doesn’t have access to the Environment/Lib files per default. A “class [...]
Using Content Delivery Networks or Content Distribution Networks (CDN) is a good way to speed up a website. In short, a CDN distributes assets like JavaScript files, images, or CSS files to locations all over the world, so that users of the websites download the assets from a close location. This helps to reduce routing [...]
