Useful apps I just love

I use a hell of a lot of little apps here and there to help me work.  As a result, I thought I would share a few of these with you.  Some of these are aimed at back end and PHP developers while others are just damn useful… for everyone.  Hell, I know of no techie folks who use a couple of these. (more…)

Joomla: Removing Mootools from the frontend and optimising your site

A simple one today, one simple way to slightly optimise you Joomla installation.  You will notice when using YSlow and other optimisation tools that it suggests including less javascript files.  Http requests to the same server can only return one file at a time and only one request can be made to the same server at the same time.  That is why using a Content Delivery Network (CDN) can prove useful, as well as feeding images and videos from Flickr and YouTube, not to mention the costs saved on bandwidth.  Anyway, the less request you have to make, the faster your site will load. (more…)