BlogBuzz September 26, 2009

Sep 26, 2009 by Matt | Posted in BlogBuzz No Comments

Put Your Website in Maintenance Mode With .htaccess

Sep 25

Sooner or later you’ll probably run into a case where you need to put up a “maintenance mode” page while working on the site (e.g. while moving a site to a different server). What’s the best way of doing that? First you create a…

Get Live Access Logs With a Simple Linux Command

Sep 24

Here’s a neat little trick for those of you with SSH access to your Linux server. You can use a simple command to get a live-updated stream of your access log, so you can see hits as they come in. It’s sort of like…

Saving Bandwidth and Speeding Up Your Site With GZIP and Browser Caching

Sep 23

There are a couple of easy adjustments you can make to your web server in order to decrease page loading times, save bandwidth, and reduce load on the server. All you have to do is add a couple of code snippets to either your…

Tweetie Retweet URL Replacer

Sep 22

As you may know, my favorite desktop client is Tweetie for Mac. If you use Twitter through a desktop client (whether it’s Tweetie or some other), you probably wish you could click those green retweet buttons and have them open in your client instead…

Google Buys reCAPTCHA

Sep 21

Google has acquired reCAPTCHA, the service that powers some of those squiggly-letter fields (or CAPTCHAs) you have to fill out before submitting a form. (This is usually done to hinder bots attempting to mass-submit the forms for purposes such as spamming.) The interesting part…

BlogBuzz September 19, 2009

Sep 19

Poll: Have You Ever Bought a Premium Theme?

Sep 18

Here’s an interesting question: Have you ever paid for a WordPress theme? Be it Thesis or a more traditional “design-oriented” theme, have you ever paid for a pre-made theme, rather than making one yourself, hiring someone to do it for you, or simply downloading…

The New York Times Accidentally Serves Malicious Ads

Sep 17

The New York Times was unwittingly serving-up a rogue advertisement last week that would install malware disguised as antivirus software when it appeared in the rotation. The malware seems to be one of the many variants of the infamous Antivirus2009, which goes by many…

Facebook Lite: Faster, Less Annoying

Sep 16

What annoys you the most about Facebook? Probably the sea of Mafia Wars notifications, quiz solicitations and other application-related things. What started out as an interesting idea has taken over the popular social networking site. There is a fix for you, fortunately. (If you…