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Comments Off on [Link] Improving Smashing Magazine’s Performance: A Case Study

[Link] Improving Smashing Magazine’s Performance: A Case Study

The title says it all: A very interesting guide through the optimization process on one of the largest blogs in 

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Comments Off on The Times talks about Times New Roman (3min video)

The Times talks about Times New Roman (3min video)

A sweet little video, made by The Times, about Times New Roman. No real information here, but nice to look. 

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A quick history of Comic Sans, the most wrongly used font ever

Excellent 10min presentation every frontend developer should see. Yes, even if you never touched Photoshop and never chose a font, 

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How to fix the ugly font rendering in Google Chrome

Update, August 2014: Google has rolled out Chrome 37, which finally fixes this issue nativly. Yeah! For historical reasons the 

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The blogosphere is full of annoying flash banners, GoogleAds and questionable product placements. So… let’s try out something new. :)

How to show memory usage (Ubuntu)

Always very useful: A simple command to show memory usage (Ubuntu / linux distros). cat /proc/meminfo  

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A 6min video introduction into Twig, the PHP templating engine

Cool video, excellently explained. Just 6 minutes, but features all the basics. Note that you can integrate Twig into your

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How to enable mod_rewrite in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

A little note first: This is the most seen way to enable mod_rewrite in tutorials. However, it’s not the best

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[video] Netflix JavaScript Talks about ECMAScript 7: The Evolution of JavaScript

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[Link] How to create, read, update and delete (CRUD) with PDO, MySQLi and MySQL the right way (prepared statements)

Mike Dalisay has written an excellent tutorial on the CORRECT USAGE of basic CRUD functions (create, read, update, delete) with

Dangerous Performance Myths in the Web (video talk by Thomas Lohner, PHPUG Latvia)

A very interesting talk from Latvia’s (not 100% sure) PHP usergroup meeting: Thomas Lohner (of SysEleven) explains why some of

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Microsoft’s Azure platform gives away high money prizes for “testing out” their cloud services

Disclaimer: DEV METAL does not get any money etc. for saying this, there is no affiliate link, no deal with

How to setup a config-free WordPress, PHP and MySQL (for local development) in Windows 7 / 8 in under 3 minutes

If you need to setup WordPress for local development and don’t have time and nerve to go through the installation

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Increase your PageSpeed score (10min video with Matt Gaunt)

Compact and clever information for dramatic speed increases. Definitly worth watching.

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