Comments for Common Media, Inc.

Comment on Y Be Slow? by eRage webdesign

eRage webdesign — Thu, 27 May 2010 13:33:40 +0000

These sound like pretty good tips. I’m developing a “general” .htaccess for most websites we’re developing here.

Here’s my take on the whole optimization story:

# Deflate on
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml application/xml text/javascript text/css application/x-javascript application/xhtml+xml application/javascript
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary

# ETag off
Header unset ETag
FileETag None

#Expires on
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault A0
ExpiresByType application/x-javascript “access plus 1 weeks”
ExpiresByType text/css “access plus 1 weeks”
ExpiresByType image/gif “access plus 1 weeks”
ExpiresByType image/png “access plus 1 weeks”
ExpiresByType image/x-icon “access plus 1 weeks”
ExpiresByType image/ico “access plus 1 weeks”
ExpiresByType image/jpeg “access plus 1 weeks”
ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash “access plus 1 weeks”
ExpiresByType video/x-flv “access plus 1 weeks”

That’s the .htaccess part. Also, I like putting Javascript files at the bottom of the page for quicker loading. Hope I helped you guys with this!

Comment on Y Be Slow? by Nginx configuration tweaks for client-side speed optimization » Common Media, Inc.

Fri, 07 May 2010 00:02:42 +0000

[...] we move more sites to an Nginx/Passenger server stack, we need to translate the server-side optimizations we use for browser-side performance from Apache configuration to Nginx. Here’s how that comes [...]

Comment on Rails incorrectly caches RSS feed as HTML by Rails’ Page Caching with Multiple Formats in respond_to « Garrick Van Buren .com « User Experience Strategy, Ruby and Rails Web App Development

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:28:06 +0000

[...] found lots of articles on caching 1 format and not another – even Rails’ documentation illustrates how to do [...]

Comment on Clean out role-user mailboxes by Rejecting mail for valid local users » Common Media, Inc.

Rejecting mail for valid local users » Common Media, Inc. — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:33:09 +0000

[...] Linux distributions will, if they are running an SMTP server and accepting mail for local users, accumulate spam for “role” users who will never read their mail, e.g. mail, uucp, news, [...]

Comment on Template building by Andrew Pelt

Andrew Pelt — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:04:35 +0000

fantastic article. Have a amazing day!

Comment on Baseline, Software Licenses and Services Agreements by Jeff Gordon

Jeff Gordon — Fri, 29 May 2009 19:35:01 +0000

I’m glad you’re glad I’m glad.

Anyways, I just wanted to say thanks for the mention of my article. I didn’t realized I was being watched.

Comment on Y Be Slow? by pjmorse

pjmorse — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 18:50:11 +0000

Domain Flipping: What a confidence-inspiring name you have! And what relevant advice to the entry on which you commented!

I appreciate your pointing out the nofollow issue; it seems to be too blunt an instrument for its purpose, and I have in fact turned it off. “Top Commenter” seems too much like a contest, however; I don’t care how often people comment, I care that they add useful ideas. (And, I should point out, the usefulness of their ideas is often in inverse proportion to their determination to push the URL of their business.)

To be more blunt, the steps you are suggesting sound to me like they’re designed to cater to those who wish to build their page-rank by planting their own URLs in as many places as possible on the site, regardless of the relevance or utility of those URLs to the content we’re attempting to provide. I think your motives and ours do not overlap terribly much.

Comment on Y Be Slow? by Domain Flipping

Domain Flipping — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 08:04:05 +0000

I strongly recommend that you turn the No Follow off in your comment section.

I’ll watch Google Webmaster Tools, and if the links don’t show up after a couple of weeks — I won’t go back to that blog again.

Another suggestion: you should have a Top Commentator widget installed.

Do Follow and Top Commentator will ensure that you have a successful blog with lots of readers!

Comment on Code for FlyFi by Template building » Common Media, Inc.

Template building » Common Media, Inc. — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:55:05 +0000

[...] mentioned our work on FlyFi before; the designers, Corey McPherson Nash, recently sent out a press release [...]

Comment on Name our drink by Parker

Parker — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:46:55 +0000

I’ve never given this a try, but I think it’s about time I do.