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Link2008 Dec 22

Writing Efficient CSS

Some guidelines to writing CSS that the browser can parse and match quickly. I had some bad assumptions about many of these, mostly due to the fact that I thought selectors matched left to right, when, in fact, the match from right to left.

Link2008 Dec 15

Finding Useless Indexes

Josh Berkus shows a how to query your databases to find good candidates for index you can drop, saving space and time on writes.

Link2008 Jun 26

mallipeddi's django-yslow at master — GitHub

A very nice Django app following the YSlow recommended best practices for optimizing your website. It includes Django management utilities to minimize and concatenate CSS/JS, version it for cache busting, and upload to S3 and set appropriate expiry and content-encoding headers.

Link2008 Jan 17

Deploying Compacted Javascript with Django

A Django management command plugin to concatenate and minify Javascript files to reduce HTTP requests and file size. I love how it ties into Django and the DEBUG state.

Link2008 Jan 08

DOS ain't so bad after all ~ Authentic Boredom

Nice insight, but I love how web interfaces can add keyboard shortcuts. For example, I never miss my Mutt email client when Gmail has great support for keyboarding.

Link2007 Dec 17

Django snippets: caching parsed templates

A wrapper around django.template.loader.get_template that caches parsed template for a bit of an optimization. Nifty.