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Google Web Site Optimizer Tool

Google has released a new service called Website Optimizer Tool it is really usefull to compare different elements in your website to see which one will generate the most leads. Sitepoint has written a good article about how it works, and how you can benefit from it.

Ubuntu 8.04 released

Today ubuntu released hardy heron, it has some nice improvements i have been running the alpha for a while now and it's pretty stable. It doesn't have any major new features but the overall improvements are nice.

All the new features can be found on this page. The most noticable improvements for me where the the new Openoffice and Firefox. They both integrate much better into the desktop and are helluvallot faster :-)

ySlow make your pages fly

With ySlow it's easy to optimize your page, it will give you allot of tips to really make your pages fly. ySlow is an extension created by yahoo.

Here you can see my results. They are really impressive, the size of the page has gone from 580k to 253k on the first load. A cached page has even greater performance gains, from 45k to just 2.5k. Almost 20 times smaller. So here is how i did it.

Big changes...

Yes finally i have updated my site it was about time. The last post dated from over 2 years ago, i just didn't really had the time to maintain it with my study and work. I promise i will post more regular now :D

I wrote this new site on cakephp which is a wonderfull php framework, so it will be more easy for me to add new features. I will write some functionality soon that you are able to comment on the articles. If you have any suggestions on things that you would like to see send me a message on my contact form.