15 5 / 2011
How To: Configure ExpressionEngine for Multiple Server Environments
One of the challenges ExpressionEngine developers who have separate development, staging, and production environments face is configuring EE to work in all three of those environments without having to modify code each time. Over the last few months, I’ve been looking for ways to make the EE configuration as dynamic as possible and here is what I’ve learned. The methods described here only pertain to ExpressionEngine 2.x.
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17 4 / 2011
EE Addon: HTML/CSS/JavaScript Optimization with AutoMin
What is AutoMin?
AutoMin is an ExpressionEngine addon that automatically combines and compresses your template output, CSS and JavaScript code.
Features
- On-the-fly combination and minification of your CSS/JavaScript
- Intelligent caching mechanism detects when you’ve made a change to your tags or files
- Automatic compression of your HTML markup
- Handles CSS @import and @font-face with ease
- Support for EE’s global variables, path variables, and {stylesheet} variables
- Reports file size differences to the template debugger
- Basic support for EE 1.X
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15 1 / 2011
Code: SVN Hooks for Staging Servers
I had to develop some SVN hooks to automate our push to staging at Paramore|Redd. I decided to take it a bit further and include PHP Syntax validation. Check out the scripts here and modify/use them as you need.
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29 9 / 2010
How To: Server-Side Web Optimization
If you’re anything like me, you like snappy (you like to find what you’re looking for and find it quickly), and slow load times can greatly impact your workflow. Turns out we’re no different than most web users. In this article, I’ll give you a few reasons why you should worry about web site optimization and show you some simple technical things you can do to speed up your site’s load time and responsiveness.
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