PUBLIC MARKS from "Xavier Lacot" with tag optimization

An efficient way to produce smaller pdf using osx

Jordi Boggiano gives some hints on how to improve the performances of a Symfony2 powered website

Using a MySQL "HandlerSocket" plugin, Yoshinori Matsunobu achieved a 750K requests per second on a normal box, which was slightly more performant than with a memcached server

ImageOptim optimizes images — so they take up less disk space and load faster — by finding best compression parameters and by removing unnecessary comments and color profiles. It handles PNG, JPEG and GIF animations.

The very point of caching is that it's faster and less resource intensive to deliver cached data than creating it on the fly. With existing cache solutions, when the cached data expires, it has to be refreshed while the user waits. In environments that rely heavily on caching, such behavior has the potential to create thread pileups and other cascading failure scenarios. This plugin introduces a cache manager : when an expired âge is called, then it is directly served from the cache, and then the cache gets asynchronously refreshed.

Google releases Page Speed, a YSlow-like firefox extension. Webmasters and web developers can use Page Speed to evaluate the performance of their web pages and to get suggestions on how to improve them.

This post is about some common tools you can use to reduce the file size of your images. The idea is to be able to just take the images your designer has created and instead of using them “as is”, go ahead and tidy them up in short time and no effort, without even looking at them.

SmushIt is an online tool that optimizes images. A firefox extension is available, that allows to optimize all the images of one web page at one stretch.