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MyEnTunnel 3.4.2.1 Released
Created at 07:11 AM on Tuesday February 2nd, 2010
Small update:Version 3.4.2.1 reduced exe file size by removing an unused library.
Small text changes only. There are no functional changes.
MyEnTunnel 3.4.2 Released
Created at 07:32 PM on Tuesday January 19th, 2010
A new version has been released that addresses a few lingering issues and adds some small features. Please click here for the new version.Website Caching Part Deux
Created at 07:06 AM on Monday January 18th, 2010
Don't you love it when you find a coding glitch? Ever since I wrote page caching for my website its not been adding page hits when it serves a cached page! I've missed thousands of page hits since it went live in July of last year. Arrrggh! Oh well, live and learn I guess.Forums
Created at 07:55 AM on Friday November 13th, 2009
Since I get a (small) amount of questions and comments about my software I've decided to add a forums section. This way others can find answers or answer other users questions. Will it be useful? No idea. But I'll give it a shot. If it gets spammed or flooded I'll simply remove it.Egypt's O'-Niner Miner 1.2.8 Released
Created at 02:50 PM on Sunday July 19th, 2009
I've released a new version of my mining application written for A Tale in the Desert (ATITD). Please see this page for more information and/or the download links.More Website Optimizations
Created at 05:47 PM on Saturday July 11th, 2009
To make things even faster I've started using CSS sprites. Now it takes 2 requests instead of 5 to load all the page background images (due to the various sizes I couldn't combine them in a single image efficiently). With cropping and palette sharing I was able to shave off a few more bytes as well.Website Page Caching
Created at 07:14 AM on Thursday July 2nd, 2009
I've implemented page caching on the website. Pages are now built and then stuffed into the SQL table with a time to live of 10 minutes. If the page gets a hit before the TTL expires the web server will serve the cached page instead of rebuilding it again. Since most of my content doesn't change this works out pretty well. A page that normally takes 0.043 seconds to build only takes 0.005 seconds to serve in its cached form, a considerable improvement.Earth & Beyond Stress Test 3
Created at 02:55 PM on Sunday June 14th, 2009
If you played Electronic Arts Earth & Beyond back in 2002-2004 you might want to take a look at the Earth & Beyond Emulator. At the time of this writing they're running an open to the public stress test (Stress Test 3).Egypt's O'-Niner Miner 1.2.7 Released
Created at 02:23 PM on Sunday June 14th, 2009
For those using my mining application (written for A Tale in the Desert (ATITD)), I've released a new version that addresses several bugs and adds quite a few useful features. Please take a look here.Website Optimization
Created at 07:13 AM on Tuesday June 2nd, 2009
This website should be a tad bit faster. I've optimized it based on suggestions from an application called Yahoo! YSlow. While this site was pretty well optimized to begin with there were a few places it could be better.The biggest savings were in image optimization. Most of the images were already compressed and optimized using jhead and optipng; but amazingly Smush.it was able to shave off a little more (1-3% on large images, about 13-25% on the smaller ones). It also converted a few gifs into pngs. (This required altering the sites CSS and possibly breaking the site on older browsers but what the heck, most people should be using a modern browser anyways).
By far the most time consuming change was enabling "expires headers" that are set in the future. Normally this is a quick and easy change but in my case it required rebuilding the apache httpd to include mod_headers (I keep apache trimmed down; only building in the modules I use/need).
Some optimizations it suggested like using a content delivery network (CDN) or disabling E-Tags (all my content is on one server) didn't apply to me. But overall it was able to offer some decent suggestions to shrink the site slightly and hopefully speed it up by having the content more readily cached.
Small update:
Additionally applied a suggestion or two from Googles Page Speed. Such as rearranging some script orders. Doubt it'll make much difference but you never know. ;)
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