ProjectX Blog

Here are some interesting links from Start-up news:

Paul Graham’s Y-combinator has created new news site called Start-up news. Here is Paul Graham’s annoucement for the launch. He states the intention of the site as

..the most important goal of news.ycombinator was to create a place where founders and would-be founders can meet and talk.

He is also using the forum as a means to interact with potential Y-combinator candidates.

Again, Paul Graham is leading the way on how to promote ideas and encourage would-be entrepreneurs.

Here are the slides from my talk this afternoon.

Here’s a tip on how to turn on HTTPD compression on your php site.

Option 1) Edit your php.ini file

; Transparent output compression using the zlib library
; Valid values for this option are 'off', 'on', or a specific buffer size
; to be used for compression (default is 4KB)
; Note: Resulting chunk size may vary due to nature of compression. PHP
;       outputs chunks that are few handreds bytes each as a result of compression.
;       If you want larger chunk size for better performence, enable output_buffering
;       also.
; Note: output_handler must be empty if this is set 'On' !!!!
;       Instead you must use zlib.output_handler.
zlib.output_compression = On

Option 2) If you haven’t got access to the php.ini file. Create this .htaccess file to your home directory to turn on compression.

AddType application/x-httpd-php php .htm .html
php_flag zlib.output_compression on

I’m speaking at the WDANZ conference tomorrow. I’m speaking about two things close to my heart – “ZoomIn” and “Optimising websites for Speed”.

I look forward to meeting web developers from all over the Canterbury region.

Interesting stats from Rankr this week . MSN has just jumped past google and trade me on Rankr stats this week.

I wonder if Vista has anything to do with this ????

Our blog is now using Mephisto (0.7.2). I had a few problems getting the conversion to behave. I have tested the comments and everything seems to be working fine.

For those that are interested, I had a few issues converting our blog from Typo. Here are some tips on how to convert it.

• The typo conversion does not import the sections / categories. I had to add the categories manually and re-allocate all the articles to the categories.
• All of the user were converted, but the admin user was allocated to all the articles.
• The layout system can be a bit of a pain, especially working on the home page. Some times you need to delete the index.html to see the changes.
• The wiki is ok as a resource, the google group is better.
• Here is a snippet of our layout.liquid template that contains code for the sidebar to display monthly archive, category archive and last 5 comments.

Recent Comments

{{ site | latest_comments:5 | assign_to:"comments" }}

{% for comment in comments %}
• {{ comment.author }} on {{comment | link_to_article: article.comment }}

{% endfor %}

Categories

{% for section in site.sections %}
• {{ section.name }} ({{section.articles_count }})

{% endfor %}

{% endif %}


We’ve just added over 5700 Auckland bus stops to ZoomIn. Now you can search for bus stops in and around Auckland eg. Mount Albert, Mission Bay or Henderson.

A big thanks to Auckland Regional Transport Authority and Maxx team for helping us get this content online.

My patience with Typo has run out, it has some crazy javascript bugs and its development activity seems to have slowed. I’m moving across to mephisto software which seems to be behave much better than Typo. The transfer should be completed in a couple of days.

Does anyone have any good / bad experiences with mephisto ?

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We’ve been thinking about how to improve Rankr and we thought we’d open up what we are doing for feedback and suggestions. Here is a list of what we are working on now:

Improvements / Suggestions

• Add sparklines graphs to “list” / search results
• Create a dynamic image to show current ranking of website

Bug fixes in progress:

• Get RSS Feeds to work properly.
• Improve flash graphs to show top ranking at the top of the graph.

Ideas

• Links to Google stats? ie Number of pages in the google index ? eg. site:projectx.co.nz

If you have any feedback, ideas, or suggestions, please let us know.

IE 7.0 has already over taken total firefox usage. How soon before it passes IE 6?

Browser stats: 9/02/07

Browser stats: 5/11/06

Browser stats 19/10/06