Well, I did plan well enough in advance my week of vacation so my family was not able to visit me in Paris. Alas, I’m taking the train to Dijon now so as to make something of this week off. Sorry family!
Just saw a great presentation from Fabrice Grinda on his entrepreneurial experience. Here are his personal 9 criteria for investing:
Quite interesting…
Google should be nearing their first beta version of their web browser named Chrome. If you’re impatient and just want to try it out now, you can download the latest “Early Access Release” here.
http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel#TOC-Mac
As of now, this version of the browser does not prompt you to download a new version when it is available.
I’m helping out with the HEC Visions of Leadership awards for next Wed., Dec. 2nd. After putting together a promo video,
I built this mosaic of the class of 2010 which is being honored.
Built a photo mosaic of the HEC Paris class of 2010 for the Visions of Leadership awards ceremony.
In the spirit of Matt Cutts’ 30 day challenges, I’m going to post to this blog once a week for the next 4-5 weeks (well, I’ll aim for 30 days worth of weeks).
I recently wrote about web standards and how it facilitates collaboration within teams over at my R2i blog page. Attached to the post is the brown-bag presentation I gave a few weeks ago.
You can download the presentation on web standards here as well. I plan to follow up on this topic in more depth in the coming weeks.
I finally took the time to setup WordPress for myself this week. After I completed the installation (wow, that was fast!), I had the idea to see if I could optimize the delivery of the content. Yahoo! has created a Firefox plugin, YSlow, which reports on several different aspects of a web site’s delivery and structure, and rates each category on an A to F scale.I thought it might be a fun exercise to try to optimize Apache based on the feedback that YSlow provides to see how high a score I could get for this blog. So far, I’m at 93 (an A).
Here are the steps I took in my Apache configuration file.
Here are the configuration settings that I added to the .conf file:
<Location />
# Insert filter
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
# Netscape 4.x has some problems...
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
# Netscape 4.06-4.08 have some more problems
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
# MSIE masquerades as Netscape, but it is fine
# BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
# NOTE: Due to a bug in mod_setenvif up to Apache 2.0.48
# the above regex won't work. You can use the following
# workaround to get the desired effect:
BrowserMatch \bMSI[E] !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
# Don't compress images
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \
\.(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$ no-gzip dont-vary
# Make sure proxies don't deliver the wrong content
Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary
</Location>
<location /blog/wp-content/themes/default/images/>
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 month"
# Disable etags
FileETag none
</location>
Let me know if you have any other ideas on improving your YSlow score. Next step: optimize a DotNetNuke site using YSlow.