SunSpider Javascript test, Chrome Vs Firefox 3.6

21 January 2010 by brant, Comments

Everyone must of heard the news that Firefox 3.6 has finally come out. There is a video mentioning all of the new changes in 3.6.  Mike Beltzner made mention of a benchmark called SunSpider and said that 3.6 had increased speed to 995 ms, down from 1188 ms.  I thought to myself, now that [...]

Top Sports Websites Analyzed for Speed

20 January 2010 by brant, Comments

Have you ever stopped to wonder how some of the biggest sports websites compare when it comes to speed and modern optimizations?  A lot of todays websites are using cutting edge features and embracing new technology, whether it be modern Javascript frameworks or a mesh of flash and embedded videos.  While it’s great to use these things to make [...]

5 Reasons Why Mashable is a Bad Influence for the Web

19 January 2010 by brant, Comments

Very recently Mashable created a post on their site indicating 5 reason why “Internet Explorer 6 Must Die”. I was so inspired by their post that I decided to create 5 reasons Mashable is bad for the Web

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Configuring the Linksys WRT610 Router for Dual Band

17 January 2010 by brant, Comments
Configuring the Linksys WRT610 Router for Dual Band

If you need a router with dual band support that is also gigabit, then the Linksys WRT610 is your best option. I have seen a lot of user reviews about dropped connections.  This was mostly due to a lousy firmware, but users were also at fault for improperly setting up dual band.  If you [...]

How Banner Advertisements Affect Google’s “Site Performance”

13 January 2010 by brant, Comments
How Banner Advertisements Affect Google’s “Site Performance”

As you may have heard a while ago, Google decided to incorporate load time into where sites rank in terms of search results. The faster the load time, the more of a bonus they should get in SERPs. One of the things that slows down page loads more than anything are site advertisements. [...]

How to restart Apache with PHP

13 January 2010 by brant, Comments
How to restart Apache with PHP

If you ever need to restart Apache via PHP, you’ll notice that the “passthru” command doesn’t quite work out like you thought it would. For those of you who have cpanel and WHM installed, this will be an easy solution.  cpanelmatt at the cpanel forums created an XML-API PHP class to be able to [...]

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Finally Using Wordpress

29 September 2008 by brant, Comments
Finally Using Wordpress

After 5 long years using my own blog script, x-pose.org now uses wordpress.  This means that my old blog is still alive and can be accessed (via google searches), but I won’t be spending the time to convert it to wordpress.  From this point on it’s all new content.
The change to wordpress means that I [...]