Octarine Parrot

The title says it all. I've just switched my site back to the wonderful /trunk, and I have to say it's impressive! It's over twice the speed of 2.1.x! Fortunately for you stable users, the speed has been backported to 2.1.x, so will be available to you for 2.1.2!

I'll also point out that this could be my last post for a while, reality is getting busy... When it gets less busy, TangoCMS will be at the top of my to do list. Coconut will be futher down, but it will still be there, nonetheless.

I've updated Octarine Parrot today, and you should see a nice bit of extra speed now! After being given a link to http://www.seositecheckup.com/ by a friend, I've fixed most of the issues the site had. Instead of loading 16 different images, your browser will now just load one, and reposition it accordingly. This saves reading lots of small files from disk, which is a slow process. I've also added a nice :hover effect to the social bookmarks (thanks Julian!). The few things left on the check list (http://www.seositecheckup.com/result-url-www.octarineparrot.com.htm, are either things I can't do (server limitations), things that would be silly to do (adding 'now', 'after' etc to meta tags), or things that I'm too lazy to do!

If you were wondering what happened to the forums, they're gone. Whether that's permanent or not I haven't decided, but stay tune, I may reintroduce them.

Enjoy!

It's finally here, the one you've all been waiting for... TangoCMS 2.1!

This release brings a nice chunk of speed, usability, RSS and much better compatibility with web hosts! Get it now at http://tangocms.org/download!

I've been having this issue a lot recently. To copy and paste from a command line, I have to highlight it with the mouse, then ⌘+c, ⌘+v. This is a pain if you have to do it repeatedly. I figured there had to be a command I could use to copy/paste, and after some googling, this is what I found:

$ echo 'foobar' | pbcopy
$ pbpaste

This is really useful to save using key combination if you have a lot of copy/pasting to do. Note that this only works with OS X, on linux you can use 'xsel' or 'xclip' to the same effect (if they are installed).

Continuing on from Browsers browsers browsers, in this post I'm going to reflect on how far browsers have come. Yesterday I had the pleasure (read: horror) of using Internet Explorer (v6, in case you were wondering)...

Rather than ranting on about Internet Explorer, I thought I'd compare it with a modern browser. Features I've come to rely on - tabbed web browsing, one click bookmarking and the awesome bar were nowhere to be seen. Looking back, I wonder how anyone ever coped without simple features such as tabs (and how some people still cope without them).

I promise the next post won't be about browsers, it just happened that this is how it worked out!