Category Archives: Internet

Improving Performance Of Web Sites From a Frontend Point of View

Posted on October 15, 2008 by Daniele Occhipinti

This notes are from the book High Performance Web Sites by O’Reilly. The Firefox plugin YSlow helps you to remind you of them. Make fewer HTTP requests Use Image Maps instead of many images (for example for a menu) Don’t … Continue reading →

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Gmail – See Only The Unread Emails

Posted on August 29, 2008 by Daniele Occhipinti

In the search box, type: label:Unread

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PHP Interacting with Google Maps – Points of Interest

Posted on June 30, 2008 by Daniele Occhipinti

You need a key that will be bound to a domain. Documentation http://code.google.com/apis/maps/index.html http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/ http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/staticmaps/ Interesting idea: http://fullmeasure.co.uk/mashups/ecsitemap.htm External Link To find out the latitude and longitude of a point Search for it on maps.google.com. Be sure that is centered … Continue reading →

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Add / Submit a Page / URL to Google

Posted on June 2, 2008 by Daniele Occhipinti

http://www.google.com/addurl/

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Email Server UK Very Flexible Full DNS Control

Posted on May 24, 2008 by Daniele Occhipinti

Scenario. The site of your client is going to be hosted on your server. They want also a personalized email address (info@company_name.com) but you don’t mean to run an email server on your server machine. 123-reg.co.uk (there are alternatives) gives … Continue reading →