cum grano salis — nobody likes a clever bastard

The Amazon Showcase widget inlines the randomized selection from your showcase, so that’s basically incompatible with a “super cache” if you still want the random behavior. This little patch makes the selection asynchronously so you still get the expected behavior. Included is an .htaccess to allow requests to the php script for those of you [...]

I was toying around with the W3 Total Cache for its minification and supposed ability to combine CSS and JavaScript and decided to smoosh eAccelerator user cache support into it since the authors have been postponing it for a while. eAccelerator is common enough that it should be supported, at least until the project dies [...]

I had been using Apache mod_rewrite to do redirects to CoralCDN, but all of the extra requests seemed to have been destroying page load performance. I have opted for rewriting the static content references with the CDN Rewrites WordPress plugin. It almost got the job done. I didn’t want it rewriting anything for requests local [...]

I have been migrating my old, dusty web page from its classy Apache mod_userdir site to WordPress. I’ve had this domain sitting around since 2000, so I figured I would finally put it to use. I’ve moved over most of the salvageable content such as the venerable Maki game and recipes. The rest will come [...]