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12. August 2014

Reset root MySQL password on Ubuntu

This is a question I have heard (too) many time. How does one reset the root MySQL password on Ubuntu. In order to make this as simple as possible I…

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11. August 2014

Google Webfonts and performance

tl;dr… Using Google Webfonts will hurt your score pretty bad, however, PageSpeed forgives you if you do it “right”. Recently I started making some changes to my WordPress theme again,…

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24. October 2013

Dynamically embedding Gists

I updated my site to utilize html5 history and ajax recently. One of the challenges I faced was how to handle Gist embeds. Since they only consist of a single…

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9. September 2013

Full score on Google PageSpeed, Pingdom and GTMetrix

For a second there, I had my doubts about being able to score 100% on multiple tests at the same time – but now I know that it can be…

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31. August 2013

Server load graph for StatusBoard with PHP

Soon after the launch of StatusBoard I published a short example of how the app could be used to display server statistics. After a lot of feedback it seems that…

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29. August 2013

Quick tip: https and wp_get_attachment_url

Today I have been playing around with Varnish, SSL and SPDY in relation to WordPress hosting. Now, one thing that I noticed was that several images were using the http…

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