http://tech.davidchiu.com Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:49:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 15 web developer tools outlined by Six Revisions: YSlow for Firebug Firebug Fiddler 2 Cuzillion mon.itor.us IBM Page Detailer Httperf Pylot PushToTest TestMaker Wbox HTTP testing tool WebLOAD DBMonster OctaGate SiteTimer Web Page Analyzer Site-Perf.com http://tech.davidchiu.com/2008/06/14/15-web-developer-tools/ Title says it all. Here's the link http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/13/2316207&from=rss http://tech.davidchiu.com/2008/06/14/microsoft-releases-first-open-xml-sdk/ Just found a great article on Youtube SEO utilizing Youtube's query suggestion tool. This information can help create a better video title or even help suggest video content in order to increase video views. http://tech.davidchiu.com/2008/06/03/youtube-keyword-suggest/ The AJAX Libraries API is a content distribution network and loading architecture for the most popular open source JavaScript libraries. By using the Google AJAX API Loader's google.load() method, your application has high speed, globaly available access to a growing list of the most popular JavaScript open source libraries http://tech.davidchiu.com/2008/06/02/googles-new-ajax-libraries-api/ A few days ago I wrote about how to configure Wordpress to use Google's cache proxy servers to serve images. After writing that entry I kept thinking to myself that there had to be a better/easier way to accomplish this other than changing Wordpress settings. Well I finally figured it ... http://tech.davidchiu.com/2008/05/23/mod_rewrite-googles-proxy-cache/ Because of the outages that we experienced at Opsource for a high profile site and recent maintenance notices I've received from another hosting provider that I use, I've started looking into fail-over options. In my head I figured there had to be a way to monitor a website and if ... http://tech.davidchiu.com/2008/05/22/dns-failover-with-zoneeditcom/ A friend of mine just showed me Maniac Mansion playing on his HTC Tilt! The old LucasArts game looks perfect on the phone and the interaction works flawlessly! This is all possible through an open-source project called ScrummVM - a program which allows you to run some of the old ... http://tech.davidchiu.com/2008/05/22/lucasarts-games-now-on-mobile-phones/ Userplane Mediaplayer™ is a next-generation video player with unlimited uploading and playback. If that weren’t enough, Userplane is offering free, unlimited video hosting. Learn more about the key features of this Flex-based, centrally hosted app... http://tech.davidchiu.com/2008/05/20/free-white-label-video-submission-hosting-with-userplane/ I found some really good articles on SEO today. Here is a summary of some key points I learned from each article: 55 Quick SEO Tips Even Your Mother Would Love 11. Check for canonicalization issues - www and non-www domains. Decide which you want to use and 301 redirect the other ... http://tech.davidchiu.com/2008/05/19/important-seo-tips/ On my other blog One Man's Wishlist, I've configured Wordpress to use Google's ad proxy cache to serve my blog images. The setting to change is "Full URL path to files" under Settings->Miscellaneous: The path needs to point to: http://gmodules.com/ig/proxy?url={path to your uploads folder}. The downside is that this setting ... http://tech.davidchiu.com/2008/05/17/using-googles-proxy-cache-with-wordpress/