Make it go faster – Enabling GZip Compression

Filed under Wisefaq, WordPress by Dale on July 27, 2009 at 1:10 am 0 Comments

Things were getting slow around here, as you can see with the results from ismyblogworking.com.
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Now WordPress, in versions before WordPress 2.5, had a GZip compression option.  It was removed in v2.5 because WordPress thought it was better to implement compression at the OS level.  All fine and good, but by default, my hosting provider does not do compression.

The quick performance fix was to enable compression.  But how???

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Tech-Ed 2008 DVD set – the presentation list.

Filed under TechEd by Dale on July 27, 2009 at 1:00 am 0 Comments

Back in October 2008, I provided you with a spreadsheet listing of the Tech-Ed 2005 – 2008 Conference Presentations, which were on the DVD sets.  Tech-Ed 2008 DVD Set had 701 presentations.  That’s a big mob of value.

I’ll be presenting the lists from Tech-Ed 2005, 2006, 2007 & 2008; over a series of posts.

Note that the spreadsheet has additional details about each of the presentations, such as the description of each presentation (abstract), so the spreadsheet is still worth grabbing from the post link above.

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