CSS files can quickly become very long and large files take time to load. Cats Who Code have compiled 3 interesting ways of compressing CSS files by using PHP. But I have to ask, why not just GZIP the files on the server prior to delivery - isn’t that how we’re supposed to play?
As a programmer/web-designer I dip into a diverse range of programming languages and frameworks. I often find that I get locked into a specific coding grammar/syntax and that it is then difficult to switch to a new one. This is when I find the following cheat sheets invaluable (and indeed comforting).
A simple console shell which allows you to run SQL queries against an Apache logfile, something that can be very useful - especially at getting information which is not easily available via static logfile analysers. [via]
