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SEO: Remove Unused CSS from WordPress Automatically
“Liam Gladdy recently authored this post about how to remove unused CSS using the grunt-uncss task and I wanted to implement it on the Roots theme (which comes pre-packaged with Grunt). When I succeeded, it managed to reduce my final stylesheet size from 159kb down to 20kb.” View complete article
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Best Practices for Designing a Pragmatic RESTful API
“Your data model has started to stabilize and you’re in a position to create a public API for your web app. You realize it’s hard to make significant changes to your API once it’s released and want to get as much right as possible up front. Now, the internet has no shortage on opinions on…
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Web font generator
At fontSquirrel. You upload your font and it generates every known format, CSS code and even embeds fonts inside CSS using base64 data.
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Windows 10 for Raspberry Pi 3
The ARM-powered Raspberry Pi computers have a been a godsend to tinkerers, students, HTPC enthusiasts, and more. The inexpensive devices have proven quite useful for many projects, and continue to push the envelope on what can be achieved for little money.
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Free, Public Domain videos for you site’s background
Looping video background on the front page is quickly becoming popular. With top sites like Airbnb, PayPal following the trend; demand for looped and time-lapse video are high in demand. One question we get asked quite often by our users is, Where can I find free, good quality videos to use on my website?
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SPDY is dead, get ready for HTTP/2
“The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is the protocol that governs the connection between your server and the browsers of your website’s visitors. For the first time since 1999, we have a new version of this protocol, and it promises far faster websites for everyone.” View complete article
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Milliseconds matter, tips on web loading times optimization
Fluidui’s Dave Kearney writes about how site loading times are important and how to optimize your own. So, milliseconds matter? Google compared loading fewer results on a page in 0.4 seconds to more results in 0.9 seconds. Traffic and ad revenue decreased by 20%. Yahoo found that between 5% and 9% of its users would…
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Public Datasets
Available at Xiaming’s Github, Awesome Public Datasets are (mostly) free. Subjects include Agriculture, Biology, Climate/Weather, Complex Networks, Computer Networks, Contextual Data, Data Challenges, Economics, Energy, Finance, Geology, GeoSpace/GIS, Government, Healthcare, Image Processing, Machine Learning, Museums, Natural Language, Physics, Psychology/Cognition, Public Domains, Search Engines, Social Networks, Social Sciences, Sports, Time Series and Transportation.
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Microsoft releases CNTK, its open source deep learning A.I. toolkit
CNTK, the Computational Network Toolkit by Microsoft Research, is a unified deep-learning toolkit that describes neural networks as a series of computational steps via a directed graph. In this directed graph, leaf nodes represent input values or network parameters, while other nodes represent matrix operations upon their inputs.
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FireBird Performance Tweaking
“Last week, I posted a story about my interaction with a software developer who uses FireBird (FB) as a back-end for their software. The short version is that they left FB’s settings at default and were using a really, REALLY old version of FB.” View complete article
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How to setup ACRA, an Android Application Crash Tracking system, on your own host
“One truth about developing a mobile application is there are so many constraints for example, a hardware limitation (CPU, RAM, Battery, etc). If your code design is not good enough, prepare to say hi to the most critical problem on earth: “Crash”. According to a study, it shows that:” View complete article
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Delphi optimization tools and patches
At Andy’s Blog. Includes DelphiSpeedUp, IDEFixPack, VCLFixPath among others.
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Composer with WordPress, how to
by SCOTT WALKINSHAW
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Setting up LetsEncrypt with Lighttpd
Instructions on how to use LetsEncrypt with Lighttpd. View complete article at Nwgat.
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Compile PHP 7 FPM + CLI from source, without touching the installed PHP 5.x
The following explains how to install PHP 7.0, from source, without uninstalling your current PHP. I used this in a development and continuous integration machine, so i can test both PHP 5.6 or PHP 7.x, ensuring our apps are php7 ready. As i am using Apache + Mod_php for PHP 5, i will use FPM…
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PHP 7.0 released
Official release at PHP.net
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Microsoft launches PowerApps, allowing you to build business apps without any coding skills
“Microsoft today launched PowerApps, a new service that allows business users to easily create a basic mobile or Web-based app without requiring codes.” View complete article
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Mega Microsoft dev tools update includes Clang codegen for Windows
“Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 with a ton of new features, including an option to build Windows dynamic libraries with the open source Clang compiler.” View complete article