3vil3d's Blog

So a couple of weeks ago I traveled over to San Francisco to attend the Velocity Web Ops and Performance conference. Amazing 3 days learning about the incredible things that folks in the US and rest of the world are doing, made me feel like we’re about 3 years behind where we should be. Also wish I’d taken a Penguin and a Developer with me, let’s hope we can get there next year

I’ve returned to the office determined to push what I saw as the main take outs of the conference into the company; Web site performance, Metrics & Continuous Deployment- this blog will try to document this.

Test. Yep that’s working. Sweet! iPad WordPress App is here

Other bits and bobs

Playing with WordPress again – started with this list of plugins – http://trishussey.com/2010/01/02/my-45-must-have-wordpress-plugins-any-to-add-to-the-list/ and then added a couple more…

WPtouch iPhone Theme – This plugin allows you to instantly and effortlessly transform your website into a mobile paradise. Whenever a mobile user accesses your blog a pleasant looking lighter version designed specially for mobile devices is presented.  This is a must have for 2010.

Stop Comment and Trackback SPAM With Akismet
If you get any traffic at all to your site, you will get some SPAM comments and trackbacks. The more traffic you get, the more SPAM you get. And you certainly don’t want Viagra ads popping up (no pun intended) all over the comments section of your site. So, you need some protection.

Google XML Sitemaps plugin automates the process of submitting a sitemap to Google, as well as Yahoo, Bing and Ask. Once the plugin is installed and activated, it will automatically create and submit a new sitemap to these search engine each time you add or modify content on your site. Does it guarantee you’ll get more traffic from search engine? Of course not, but it can certainly help ensure that all your pages gets indexed a bit quicker.