Jul 28, 2011 website
For the last two years Google has had a page speed analysis service to check for any bottlenecks on the setup of your website (such as compressed HTTP connections, caching static resources, etc). Last year they published an Apache module to perform many typical speedups seamlessly for web requests.
Now they are offering a hosted service called Google Page Speed Service. All you have to do is signup for an account and change your DNS servers to point to their servers and the optimizations are automatically applied! Currently this service is free for select testers, however they plan to open it…
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Jul 21, 2011 website and social media
I upgraded the website today and the major "enhancement" is the addition of the social media links for following updates to the website and programs on Twitter (@coder_for_life) and Facebook (Coder for Life). I hope to increase the presence of these features over the entire website, including "liking" articles. I already have gone one step in the right direction with this an have added Open Graph tags on every page (although the required "og:image" and recommended "og:description" are not available for non-project pages yet).
Adding the Social Media
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May 03, 2011 win7boot
The first beta version of the Windows 7 Boot Updater has been released! This includes many fixes and improvements over the last version. I am releasing it as "Beta" since I have greater confidence in it's stability over all of the previous versions.
See http://www.coderforlife.com/projects/win7boot/ for more information and the download.
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Apr 03, 2011 site
For quite some time now the comments have been very broken on my. Previously, posting comments lead to a blank page and did not actually submit the information. In IE the "Leave a Reply" box never opened, so those users could never even try to leave a comment. Additionally, RSS feeds for comments on project pages would just be the project page itself, not an RSS feed and not just the comments. Also, many of the styles used for comments needed some tweaking.
If you find any more issues with comments, please tell me.
Mar 16, 2011 win7boot
The newest version of the Windows 7 Boot Updater has been released! This includes many improvements over the last version, but since it introduces experimental features which needs to be tested by the community it is remaining in Alpha (I have done preliminary tests, but there are numerous things I cannot account for).
The new noticeable major features are:
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