3 articles and links tagged with “howto”

1. CSS Rules of Thumb
   February 22, 2010

   Apropos of nothing, a few CSS tips that have nothing to do with browser incompatibilities, and everything to do with your own sanity when dealing with code you've written.

2. Compiling Varnish on a minimal JeOS System
   May 09, 2009

   Varnish is an excellent-looking ‘HTTP accelerator’, designed specifically as a high-performance caching reverse-proxy to sit in front of your hard-working application servers, and relieve them of load. It’s a bit of a pain in the ass to install from source on JeOS, though.

3. Smoothly Migrating to a New Server
   November 02, 2008

   Hopefully, you didn’t notice a thing yesterday when I moved the site off my shared accelerator at Joyent, and onto a custom built slice at Slicehost. That was very much the goal. Briefly, I’ll go through the steps I took to make the transition as smooth as possible both before the launch and directly afterwards.