There are a lot of different ways you can increase the speed of your website, even if you have relatively cheap hosting. If you’re lucky, your blogging platform already has a caching engine built in (Drupal does). If you’re unlucky, and running something like Wordpress, you have to do a bit more [...]

So since the complete develop environment on my Mac was blown away by reverting to a previous version of the OS, I started trying to put it all back together tonight. One piece that I really found useful was having my own local web environment on my laptop that basically mirrors my main site. [...]

So if you hadn’t noticed, my blog has been really flaky for the last week or so. For some reason, all the hard drive space on my machine keeps disappearing, and it’s causing mysql and apache to occasionally crash. I spent a few hours this morning trying to figure it out, so hopefully [...]