Adam Breckler

internet professional

Month: November, 2009

Speeding up Wordpress

Once your wordpress blog starts getting traffic besides your mom and cousins you will likely have to start taking measures to reduce it’s cpu footprint.
Note: Some of these methods will work on a shared host without root access, but ssh is required for some methods, like installing memcached.
Step 1: Offload Images to Amazon S3
Images generally [...]

Parkinson’s Law

Parkinson’s Law is the adage first articulated by Cyril Northcote Parkinson as the first sentence of a humorous essay published in The Economist in 1955:
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion
In Software:
Software Bloat: Data expands to fill the space available for storage.

Example: Too many to list.
In Academics:
Student syndrome refers to [...]