Fix Zip Handler in Windows7

Fix Zip Handler in Windows7

Feb 8, 2010

Sometimes our favorite Archive software (7Zip, WinRar, WinZip to name a few) can break the native Windows’s zipped folder behavior. To fix it back to the way it was before, just unregister zipfldr.dll and re-register it. To unregister Windows 7 built-in zip file compression, and then to re-register it, use these two commands in a CMD prompt opened with...

XAMPP Portable Webserver

XAMPP Portable Webserver

Feb 6, 2010

Web Dev Without the Web: Or how to create your own local server for building and testing websites. The nice guys over at Apache Friends have made it easy to get your own webserver up in no time! Just goto http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html and grab the file you need for your type of computer (Windows, Linux, or even Mac) and run 1 application that fires...

Speedup WordPress Tip#5

Speedup WordPress Tip#5

Feb 5, 2010

WordPress Speed Tip#5: Common Sense goes a long way… A few things that are not-so-common sense would be to try to use your judgement and think about the following: Less is more; and content is King Kong; we all like Google Analytics, Quantserv, mint, blogroll, Flash based Tag Clouds, and the whole moon. But Too much content at once can be overwhelming,...

Speedup WordPress Tip#4

Speedup WordPress Tip#4

Feb 4, 2010

Tip#4: Housekeeping is important! Some common tips you see all over the internet is to remove deactivated plugins. DELETE! DELETE! DELETE! If you deactivated it once, don’t hang on to it. You didn’t like it once, you are not likely to want it the next day either! WordPress goes through all plugins, active or not, every page load. That’s alot...

Speedup WordPress Tip#3

Speedup WordPress Tip#3

Feb 3, 2010

WordPress Speed Tip #3 – Remove Database calls from your theme. Database calls make WordPress so dynamic, but sometimes you can live without it. By replacing simple text, you will be able to increase your WordPress speed. To give an example look at your header.php code which looks something similar: <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" <?php...

OpenDNS and Neustar bring Real Time DNS

OpenDNS and Neustar bring Real Time DNS

Feb 2, 2010

OpenDNS is the largest recursive DNS provider and Neustar is the largest authoritative DNS provider. These two are now working together on a new joint project called DNS Real-Time Directory that allows the updating of the DNS in near real time. The concept was born when they identified the need for a better process for updating the DNS. The old process limits...

Speedup WordPress Tip#2

Speedup WordPress Tip#2

Feb 2, 2010

WordPress Speed Tip #2 Cache in now to save later… WordPress is end the end, just a PHP script. With the dynamic nature of PHP, every time a page is loaded, WordPress must execute a series of queries to the database server, to generate the page.This can make your site load slow and even crash due to the server load if you experience high traffic.(See Digg...