Been saving these around for bookmarking reasons, just haven’t gotten around to posting them. Don’t have time to post all of them, but here are a few…
- 156 Useful Run Commands for Windows — Handy if your mouse is dead or explorer.exe won’t run but you can get into task manager.
- Coding an HTML 5 Layout From Scratch. If you need to hack IE to use HTML 5 elements, use this Javascript).
- Speaking of Web design, the 10 most common mistakes Web designers make.
- Back in the Windows arena, BlueScreenView is a very useful dump file decoder (all of Nirsoft’s utilities are great, especially if you’ve lost passwords).
- Compressing your Web pages with mod_deflate (a technique I’ve used in many places).
- Accelerate your hard drive by short stroking.
- Using .htaccess for pretty URLs.
- RethinkDB, the MySQL storage engine for solid state drives (SSDs).
- Clever PNG optimization techniques.
- Advanced jQuery techniques.
- Licensed memory in Windows Vista (aka: the Windows 32 bit memory limit and why Microsoft hates you).
More tomorrow.
Comments
Thanks for the link. I’m often amazed how simple some of these techniques can be, but they can really speed up your site loads.