I was having a conversation recently about hosting, who we use, why, etc. Those that know me will be unsurpried that I use UKFast to host things, specifically eCloud. The discussion arrived at documentation and why there arent any ‘Getting Started’ guides for eCloud like there are with AWS or DigitalOcean. This is a good […]
speedtest-cli
Ive been a big fan of Speedtest.Net for a long time, back when I was in Broadband Tech Support we used to advise customers to test using this site rather than others they found or knew about already. Unfortunately they seem to be adding more and more adverts onto the site the last few years […]
and then there were… Five!?
A couple of months ago, Opera announced they were dropping Presto in favor of WebKit to allow them to spend their time focusing on the browser rather than the HTML rendering engine within it. This was seen by some people as a loss for web standards as Opera were the major company pushing standards and […]
and then there were three
Big news in the world of HTML this morning as Opera announce the end of Presto and a move to Webkit for all future products HTML rendering. Leaving the only three major rendering engines Gecko, Webkit and Trident. Mixed views on Twitter this morning, my opinion is its a shame that they feel the need […]
Page Speed Score [Update]
Back in May last year, I wrote a post about a new Firebug (for Firefox) Plug-in called Page Speed, that allowed you to test the load time of your website and get some useful tips on how to improve this. This week, Google took that idea and extended it into an independent online tool, making […]