Last night a friend of mine gave me the idea of creating a time-lapse video of New York using the images by the NY-Times webcam. The video shows New York between 15:30 and 08:30 (local time) last night as Sandy hit.
I used a simple script to download one image per minute – combining a cron-job with a few lines of PHP, and used these to create a 60fps 30fps time-lapse video of the approximately 1050 images gathered so far.
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 done. The first 100% was from Pingdom, after which I started on the GTMetrix test. The problem was that by…
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If you work with WordPress professionally, you almost certainly have a staging environment. Most hosting setups include one, most agencies set one up as a matter of routine. But here is the thing: a lot of the sites people call production are, in practice, staging environments. They just do not…
