The ramblings of Aprazeth, an recent convert to minimalism, enthusiast of computer technology – with an outspoken opinion about everything and everyone.
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New functionality and appearance on the site
Jun 28th
Posted by Aprazeth in Geek Stuff
Since it’s been a while – I changed the site’s theme again. I thought it would look nice and it indeed does, but the work is not yet done. It does have added functionality – such as the Twitter posts that I recently made and related posts. I have also enabled the comments again. There is a filter in place, as to avoid some of the spamming that is bound to happen. Additionally, comments are only allowed on posts that have been created in the last 30 days.
Still here
May 10th
As you might have noticed I haven’t blogged anything lately. This mostly due to the fact that I am in the middle of moving into a new place – and my girlfriend moving in as well… So it’s a bit hectic with lots of things to do. And as an optional side-note, I am evaluating a lot of things I used to do, but which I am not doing right now.
I should be able to post a few updates somewhere this week so – no worries!
More on later…
Overhauling the site – again
Mar 28th
Posted by aprazeth in Geek Stuff
One of the things that I kept bumping into is the exceedingly slow response-times of my website. At times it took over 2 seconds to display a page, which quite frankly is unacceptable.
The past few days I have been fiddling with the plugins of the site; installing and uninstalling them. One of the things that has gone out the window, as you can see is Bing search. I have also dropped the Tag Cloud, WordPress statistics (which only were shown to me) and the Twitter plugin. The graphical theme of the site has also had a bit of an overhauling, as I dropped some of the images – and optimized the CSS-file.
I have also disabled the smileys, disabled (most of) the comments (which allowed me to disable quite a few other items as well) and have implemented another plugin that caches the pages. Having done this has now dropped the average response time of the site from 1.7 seconds to the 0.7 seconds. Keep in mind that this is measured on a global scale. For those interested I use PingDom.com (which I highly recommend – even their free account!) to keep tabs on the response- and up-time.
Another thing I also noticed is the increase of traffic coming from Google on one of my posts here regarding the HTC HD2 and how to sync it with Google (for Google Mail, contacts etc.) I guess I stroke a chord there with people. I’ll try to focus a bit more on those kind of posts ;-)
SPF-record now in place for MajorAap.com
Mar 25th
Posted by Aprazeth in Geek Stuff
I just finished implementing the SPF-record for the domain MajorAap.com. This means that from now on, it will be harder for spammers and other miscreants to ‘spoof’ the domain MajorAap.com. Keep in mind that this will not eliminate spam, it will just help a bit.
A SPF-record is basically an entry that tells mail-servers which mail-server is authorized to send emails from the domain majoraap.com. If a server is not on that list, it will not accept it (provided the receiving mail-server uses SPF-records which now-a-days pretty much all of them do)
If you want to know more about SPF, please visit the Wikipedia page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sender_Policy_Framework.
As a note;
This site does not send out any emails unless you opt-in to them (subscribing to a post for example)
Update on site search using Bing
Mar 18th
Posted by Aprazeth in Geek Stuff
As I mentioned earlier, I have implemented Bing Search as the search-mechanism for this site. However, as you might notice – it doesn’t find anything yet. Oddly enough it seems that Google has already indexed my site again – and everything from that end works correctly.
In short; please be patient as I continue to try and get the Bing Search to work.
I am quite sure that some of you are wondering why I would use Bing Search as opposed to Google Search. Well, simply put – Google has more then enough of my data already. It’s time to split some of it up. Bing in itself is quite a nice engine, be it a bit picky. I’m sure we’ll get that sorted though :-)
Thanks for hanging in there with me.
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