Konstruktors Web Design, WordPress and Performance Services
The fastest WordPress instance I have ever seen — 14 queries in 0.04 seconds, and Pingdom Tools reporting 0.6 seconds load time for the whole frontpage with a default theme. And all of that on a VPS powered by Debian and Nginx web server at deac.eu in Latvia . I’ll be moving soon.
Twitter’s success is people discovering the excitement of publishing.
The 140 character limit and the overall simplicity is exactly what attracts even those who didn’t think they had thoughts and ideas worth publishing. The rest of it is just a stripped down e-mail functionality.
The limitations of web design are also its most powerful features, when compared to print. Design is all about finding the best solutions within a specific set of scarce resources.
Fonts are designed to deliver information to the reader in the easiest and fastest way. Aren’t the fonts currently available on various operating systems doing this job well?
I have uploaded the Widget Context plugin to the official plugin repository. From now on, you’ll be getting the updates automatically (even those of you who installed it manually).
If you like this plugin, support the development by a donation.
There is a new version of Widget Context plugin which is almost a complete rewrite of the plugin with improved performance and added functionality.
For the next version I planing to implement filters that allows developers to add custom context rules.
I am now a member of the Free Software Foundation. Here is the talk by Richard Stallman that inspired me to finally become one.
Freedom means not having a master — Richard Stallman
Here is the source code of Palm’s WebOS — built on top of Linux kernel with more than 1000 patches (via h-online.com).
Does anyone know if it’s the complete OS with windowing & UI parts developed by Palm?
This is a response to an article written by Daniel Jalkut, titled Getting Pretty Lonely.
I think there is one critical point that we all should agree on — developers like to be compensated for their work, even those of Open Source and Free Software.
Some assume that GNU GPL makes it almost impossible or at least very hard to earn fair compensation for time invested in developing the software, while “Liberal” licences allow the freedom to determine (and guarantee) the compensation through controlling the distribution.
The reason for this is the current implementation of the competition-driven capitalism which has made the concepts of donation and freedom to compensate completely bizarre in the context of how businesses work these days. Read more »