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An Exercise in Efficiency: Swipht goes Virtual

Posted by: 
Jeff Jerome
Posted date: 
Mon, 2010-07-05

As a result of the current slowing economy, cost-conscious tech companies have been reassessing whether they really need the capital expense of a physical office space. A new study found that 43% of small and mid-sized businesses would seriously consider going completely virtual in order to help deal with the current economy. Couple this with the fact that in any 24-hour period, an office is only used for about 7 per cent of the time, a change makes financial sense.

Well, Swipht has considered a change and the result---we've taken the plunge!

Image Optimization Tools

Posted by: 
Jeff Jerome
Posted date: 
Mon, 2009-03-23

One of the yslow techniques for improving client-side performance is to optimize your images. But how? Even though I have a few years of using Photoshop, I still haven't mastered how to best optimize images coming out of it. There are a few tools that can help us out with this task.

Difference between Apache and Nginx setup on front-end performance

Posted by: 
Jeff Jerome
Posted date: 
Tue, 2009-03-24

The first article I wrote for Swipht had to do with front-end performance and I outlined the YSlow rules and how I implemented them on this site.

This blog, as of late March 2009, is powered by Mephisto, a Ruby on Rails-based blog engine. To serve the application, either you pair a front-end web server with an application server, or use Phusion Passenger. I'll explain.

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