Testing the Claims
Now that you have installed CloudFlare, you can test you site’s performance at Pingdom, which I mentioned at the beginning of the article, http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/. Or you can just look at some of metrics.
CloudFlare analytics
Getting to Know CloudFlare
Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) have become one of the hottest trends in the Web development industry. They allow content to be pushed from the cloud at rapid speeds. In Part I of this article, you will find out how to set up CloudFlare, a free CDN, with the W3 Total Cache plugin (W3TC), which is also free. In Part II, you will see real-life performance metrics of this combination taken from my personal site. Continue reading
Check out the posting by the Austin Adobe User Group:
Join the Austin Adobe User Group’s March 9 meeting when Eli McMakin will demonstrate his Optimized Photography Workflow using Bridge, ACR (Adobe Camera Raw) and Photoshop CS 5.5. He will aggregate the RAW files in Bridge, tweak them nondestructively in ACR, and output them through Photoshop. He will demonstrate best practices for a photographic pipeline and show how to decrease time spent fixing photos on the computer so that you can spend more time making money.
The event will be held from 1:15pm to 3:30pm at the New Horizons Computer Learning Center.
Philosopher/Poet Christopher Wallace
Humans used to have problems. Real problems: our dinner could be dangerous and was difficult to find and catch; the remedy to disease was to take some herbs and pray to the gods that sickness went away; and disputes were often settled with bows and arrows. Turn your pagers to 2012. Our basic needs have been met. There is so much food that the government pays farmers not to grow crops. Third-world diseases, like dysentery and cholera, have been replaced with first-world diseases, like diabetes and heart-failure. And disputes can be resolved by a gavel. As the great philosopher-poet, Christopher Wallace, once said, “Things done changed.” Continue reading
Well, the new site is here. While it doesn’t look very different, there are a lot of changes under the hood. Previously, the site was created in Dreamweaver. Any changes that I made to the site, like blog updates, were made in Dreamweaver and uploaded to the Internet. That is so 2008. Continue reading
