Underscores vs Hyphens and an apology
If you read my blog via an RSS reader you probably noticed at few odd goings on earlier today. I changed a few things on the site and all of the posts going back to last year appeared as new again, even if you'd read them.
Sorry 'bout that, but there was a method to my madness, or at least a method to my fiddling.
Although it's not entirely obvious, one of the main reasons I started running this site was to mess around with search engine optimisation and try out the theories of various experts who also run a blog but with a great deal more focus that me.
To that end, I've re-written the code that generates my rss feed, and included some in line formatting to make it easier to read. Now when you read the blog from a feed reader it should look a bit more like the website, give or take. Well, more give than take.
While some of the changes were purely cosmetic, I also changed the URLs for all my blog posts.
The new URLs is the bit that caused them to pop up as new posts in at least feedburner and Google reader. The change to the URLs was to remove the....
Tags: Javascript compression with Apache 2 and Debian Etch
If you're trying to wring every last drop of performance out of a website you're probably wanting to compress all your content before it hits the wire. While I was messing about with another project I noticed that the javascript from this blog wasn't getting compressed.
If you just want the solution to the issue, skip to the bottom of this post, but for those interested in the finer detail, read on.
This site uses Apache 2 on Etch, and after a bit of Googling I didn't really find a direct mention of this issue, so I though I'd slap it on here for other folks afflicted with un-compressed javascript.
First step is to enable mod_deflate in the first place...
Why is it so hard to think up a good password?
I've been working in IT for a wee while now, a shade over 20 years even, and in all this time there is one consistent thread of frustration that nibbles away at my very sanity. Trivial Passwords.
I'm sure this isn't just be going nuts here, there must be thousands of network administrators and web masters going quietly bonkers all over the planet right at this very moment.
We slave away with intimate pride of our collective nerdiness, building robust and secure IT systems for all to behold. Fussing and fettling over minute details to...
