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// 28.Dec.2008

3 Ways to Compress CSS Files Using PHP

Last Modified: December 28, 2008 at 4:51 pm • No Comments • Permalink
Classification: Asides • Taxonomy: Apache, High Performance, Open Source, PHP, Programming, Scalability, Web Server

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?

// 15.Oct.2008

Runtime Page Optimizer

Last Modified: October 15, 2008 at 10:43 pm • No Comments • Permalink
Classification: Asides • Taxonomy: High Performance, Scalability, Web Server

RPO runs on a web server applying performance optimizations to pages at runtime, just before the page is sent to the browser. I can’t wait for the Apache version to become available. [via]