Archive for the ‘best practice’ Category

Interesting Presentation on Web Development Standards

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

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Follow up to the last post: A collection of creative 404 Pages

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Some high quality and impressive looking 404 pages.

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Creating User Friendly Error Pages

Monday, May 26th, 2008

We might understand what 404 means, but many users do not. Some good tips to provide a more helpful error page to the user when a page cannot be found.

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Great blog on MySQL performance …

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Some great stuff on getting the best performance out of MySQL …
MySQL Performance Blog

I have just been reading this …
ORDER BY … LIMIT Performance Optimization. Pagination is used on just about every site I work on - that article is great on speeding up queries using ORDER BY and LIMIT.

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Faster Web Pages

Monday, March 31st, 2008

A fantastic presentation from Yahoo! on multiple ways (including CSS, Javascript and server-side technologies) to speed up page delivery and rendering. I think most developers would learn something from this.

Here is another presentation from Yahoo! which touches on the same issues …

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