Category: Web work

These days, most of my work is very related to the online world. Building web sites, reviewing web applications, integrating with web services, coordinating people who are far away from each other, etc. Whenever I find a new tool or service or an innovative, interesting idea about working online, I share it in this category.

Jumping off the Cloudflare bandwagon

Since I’ve recommended CloudFlare on this blog quite a few times, I thought it would be fair to let you guys know that I’ve removed my site from CloudFlare yesterday.  The domain management is back to GoDaddy.

Why?  Well, now that CloudFlare is getting bigger by the day, it seems to be getting more and more attacks and partial downtimes globally.  There are also a few temporary quirks happening every now and then, where connections would get reset and such.  Not that these are too annoying to have, but not knowing whether an issue with the site is a CloudFlare one or not – that’s annoying to me.  I can live with my site not working right, as long as I know what exactly the problem is.  Because if I know where the problem is, I usually know how to fix it and how much time it will take.  When its a CloudFlare issue, I am out of the loop and I am out of control.  And that I can’t have.  Even if that happens rarely.

Regarding my recommendation to use CloudFlare, I still stand behind it.  I think that if you haven’t tried the service, you definitely should.  And, you especially should if your site has global audience and you don’t have technical team in place.

Atomic Bookmarks for Google Chrome

Via CyberNet News I came across a nice extension for Google Chrome – Atomic Bookmarks.  When installed it provides a quick access to bookmarks via single click.  It has a few nice features, such as quick bookmark search and saving of currently open tabs into a new folder with a single click again.

The user interface has a few minor glitches, but if you are using bookmarks in Google Chrome, this add-on is definitely recommended.

If the World War III will ever start, it won’t be …

If the World War III will ever start, it won’t be for oil or food.  It will be the whole world jumping on China, in an attempt to destroy every single computer running Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.

Octopress – a blogging framework for hackers

Octopress – a blogging framework for hackers

Being a very happy WordPress user doesn’t stop me from looking around for alternatives.  I recently came across Octopress, which is, in some sort, GitHub pages on steroids.  This is a really neat and geeky approach to tech-savvy bloggers. Recently, version 2.0 has been released.

Octopress comes with:

  • A semantic HTML5 template
  • A Mobile first responsive layout (rotate, or resize your browser and see)
  • Built in 3rd party support for Twitter, Google Plus One, Disqus Comments, Pinboard, Delicious, and Google Analytics
  • An easy deployment strategy using Github pages or Rsync
  • Built in support for POW and Rack servers
  • Easy theming with Compass and Sass
  • A Beautiful Solarized syntax highlighting