Matilda

After many months of frustration with Typo, I finally bit the bullet and have been spending the past couple of evenings cooking up my replacement called Matilda.

It's nowhere complete, with a lot of things still to add but I eventually hope to push it to the GitHub repository and let others break it apart; but only when I'm happy with it.

To ease the transition I've also been using Google's WebMaster Sitemap tool to track dead 404 links still out there in the ether so they will point to somewhere rather than an error page.

Got logging for any 404's beyond the one's I've countered for so sooner or later things should ease up.

Admin side is a bit simplistic, but usable, need to put in RSS & ATOM feed generators and FeedBurner integration; but so far looking (fingers-crossed) good.

...if anything what took the most time was writting the Typo -> Matilda importer.

Keep you posted,

After many months of hard work on behalf of the Mozilla corporation, and lots of testing and fixes from so many smarties; Firefox 3 has finally and officially gone gold.

Better standards compliance, security, memory fixes, just tons and tons of new improvements (not to mention the new rendering engine), this one's a goodie.

Go download it now, Ghandi would be proud ;-)

Using the Firebug addon YSlow from Yahoo I managed to tune site performance a little more by adding 'expires' to the nginx.conf file

location ~* ^.+.(jpg|jpeg|gif|js)$ { root /var/www/apps/myapp/public; access_log off; expires 30d; }

What this basically does is tell NGINX that any files of type jpg, jpeg, gif, and js with the root dir specified shouldn't be logged for access and have an expires value set to 30 days.

As most of the images I use on-site don't change that much this works perfect for me.

Updated my NGINX example files in the [CODE DOWNLOADS] area so you can grab a copy.

More tips located at...

• Zhesto Nginx notes
• Nginx Full Example 1
• Nginx Full Example 2

It's hard to do but these might help,

• X-Ray, a bookmarklet to examine elements within the document model, similar to firebug's 'inspect'.

• Fiddler, an http debugger for ie 6/7

• IE Developer Toolbar, similar in power to firebug but in no way as comprehensive.

• IETester, full-blown IE6 standalone browser, finally you can test against IE6 on Vista!

Moveme.com - Winners of the People's Choice Award 2007

Move Me, this year's People's Choice winner, beat competition from far and wide to take the number one prize, proving that moving doesn't have to be as stressful as we may think.

In addition to taking the People's Choice crown, it also proved a popular site with the expert panel of judges, winning the Innovative category award announced earlier in January.

Move Me aims to take away the stress of moving house with its free Move Planner. The planner takes everything into account from finding reputable removal firms to who you need to notify of your change of address.

Enjoy!

• Yahoo People's Choice Award

• www.moveme.com

Looking forward to the award arriving this week ;-)