Archive | February, 2009

18 February 2009 2 Comments

VirtualPC images with Windows XP and IE

This is one of the very rare occasions where Microsoft actually did something cool. A couple days ago I needed to test one of my web apps with Internet Explorer 8 and just for giggles with IE6 – although we’ve dropped support for that dinosaur a while ago. Remembering my previous experience with IE8 and [...]

16 February 2009 12 Comments

High Performance Media Merging with Django, Nginx and Memcached

I admit it – I’m a performance junkie. I can’t stand code that just works but performs poorly. Being said, I recently fell in love with Django (a fantastic Python powered web application framework). In one of my current projects – xarmory.com – the number of requests for static resources issued during page load began [...]