Work on sites before the DNS has rolled over (by editing the hosts file)
Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in Programming, Tricks | No Comments »Important: This does not work if you are behind a proxy, which includes antivirus firewalls and such. Right click on the hosts file in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc Go to properties, turn off "read-only" Open the file using Notepad or any text editor Add a line to ...
Make your WordPress site faster (easily)
Sunday, September 21st, 2008 Posted in Programming, Tips | No Comments »What: There's a feature called "gzip" that's installed by default on most web servers. Modifying your site to make use of it can really speed up the performance. How much faster? Try the quick and easy mod_gzip tester by WhatsMyIP.org. Just enter the URL ...
Getting “As low as” on Magento unexpectedly?
Friday, September 12th, 2008 Posted in Tips | 1 Comment »It's just a caching issue. All you have to do is go to System -> Cache Management and then click the refresh button next to "Layered Navigation Indices".
Speed up Magento by ~235%
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 Posted in Tips, Tricks | 29 Comments »What: There's a feature called "gzip" that's installed by default on most web servers. Modifying your site to make use of it can really speed up the performance. How much faster? Try the quick and easy mod_gzip tester by WhatsMyIP.org. Just enter the URL ...
Google Web Browser “Chrome” Released
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 Posted in Tips | No Comments »Google's new web browser "Chrome" was released today. So far I really like it. It's extremely fast, looks nice and has all the features you would need. It also imports from Firefox perfectly, not just bookmarks either. It does saved ...
New Car!
Friday, June 20th, 2008 Posted in Other | No Comments »'03 Acura 3.2 TL - 225 HP Read more to see pictures:
Guide to Setting Up a VPN in Windows
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 Posted in Tips | No Comments »I used Bob Cerelli's Guide.
Uxtheme Patches (Windows XP SP3, SP2, Etc.)
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 Posted in Tips | No Comments »Find them all here. I used this guide to install.
Replacing your main hard drive is actually really easy
Friday, February 8th, 2008 Posted in Tips, Tricks | No Comments »I recently had to swap out a hard drive on a perfectly good computer here at work. I needed to do this quickly, so I found out about Acronis True Image. This program lets you make a bootable disc that ...
Easy Windows Explorer Tweak
Friday, February 1st, 2008 Posted in Tricks | No Comments »You can make Windows Explorer start in whatever folder or drive you want! I always found it really annoying how it would start in "My Documents", which after a while has so many subfolders in it that you have to ...