About 14 months ago, The Daily Californian switched from Disqus to Facebook Comments in order to clean up the comments section of the website. But recently, the decision was reversed, and it was decided that Disqus would make a come back. I worked with one of my Online Developers to facilitate the process. One of […]
RogerHub’s most popular page contains over 50,000 HTML nodes. It’s no easy task for a browser to chew through all of that HTML and render it quickly. However, most modern browsers are now able to render that particular page without any performance issues, including mobile and tablet web browsers. When it comes to website performance, […]
From 1999 to mid-2011, the Daily Cal used an in-house CMS to run the website. It contains around 65,000 individual articles and thousands of images. But ever since we moved to WordPress, the old system has been collecting dust in the corner. It was about time that all of the old CMS content was archived […]
Vagrant is a nifty piece of Ruby software that lets you set up Virtual Machines with an unparalleled amount of automation. It interfaces with a VM provider like VirtualBox, and helps you set up and tear down VM’s as you need them. I like it better than Juju because there isn’t as much hand-holding involved, […]
There are a surprising number of people who hate elementary OS. They say that elementary is technically just a distribution of linux, not an OS. They say that it is too similar to OS X. They say that the developers are in over their heads. All of these things may be true, but I do […]