Sam’s random musings

Mod Expires:

Yahoo! recently released an amazing tool called “YSlow”. It helps analyze the pages you’ve built and find problem points and bottlenecks. As bradleyboy said, there is nothing quite like working to fix that letter grade.

Some good quick tips in these two little readings already adding

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ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 6 months"

(Via Walker Hamilton(dot)com.)

CSS Specificity: Things You Should Know.:

CSS Specificity: Things You Should Know.

I call this things Lance knows and I should know…

(Via Dangerousmeta.)

Mambo goes CakePHP:

Yesterday, the Mambo Foundation announced that they will use CakePHP for the next version of the Mambo Open Source CMS:

[…] After a great deal of research the Mambo team has decided to utilize the CakePHP framework for Mambo 5. […]

Nice, I played with this a while ago before I cooked up my own lighter weight CMS for my clients to use. But to have a CMS that will be a joy to hook into, now that is exciting

(Via cakebaker.)

‘Jesus Christ, I’m speechless’: Vinokourov positive:

RTE Sport | Vinokourov fails dope test

Astana leader Alexandre Vinokourov apparently tested positive for blood doping after Saturday’s time trial victory, and the entire Astana team has withdrawn from the Tour immediately.

David Millar was in the midst of a press conference when the news spread. Asked about the story, he said, “Jesus Christ, I’m speechless. It makes me sad. I have the impression the riders will never understand.”

No way, that is a real deal breaker, I really felt that was one of the good ones…

Of course the part of this that is just no surprise at all is the fact that LéEquipe got leaked evidence from the same Châtenay-Malabry’s lab as has leaked all the other information.

(Via Tour de France 2004.)

From amazon today…

We’re writing about the order you placed on July 14 2005 20:19 PDT. Unfortunately, the release date for the item(s) listed below has changed, and we need to provide you with a new delivery estimate based on the new release date:

  Dori Smith "Dashboard Widgets for Mac OS X Tiger : Visual 
    QuickStart Guide (Visual Quickstart Guides)" [Paperback]
    Estimated arrival date: 01/07/2009 - 01/09/2009

WOA! now that’s late, what’s up with that. Did her publisher really screw this up?

Question is cancel or keep????

If Bugs Were _____, You’d Be _____:

The nice thing about the “If Bugs Were People, You’d Be China” joke is that it’s almost infinitely extensible. Really, try it: “If Bugs Were _____, You’d Be _____.”

You can read some good entries here.

(Via Bug Bash.)

CakePHP 1.2 Helper Examples:

A really nice code -> output display of the current helper functions in cakephp 1.2

CakeBits » 27 Useful CakePHP Tutorials:

Great set of tutorials to get you started with CakePHP most are for the current release of 1.1 but that is the better documented version still anyway. Most should be very close to working in 1.2 the fancy pants cutting edge version

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