Jun 1st, 2011
How the Adobe Evangelists Super Blog was Implemented
Last week, we launched the Adobe Evangelists Super Blog (details here). Several people have asked me how the Evangelists Super Blog was implemented. Here’s the scoop: I installed WordPress I installed the Mortar theme from WooThemes (same theme I used for my blog). I added some php code to add the evangelists pictures based on [...]
Mar 9th, 2011
How to dramatically speed up your WordPress blog in 2 minutes
I recently moved my blog from WordPress.com to my own server (blogged here). I’ve always been a performance tuning fanatic so I immediately started benchmarking my new blog’s performance. One thing I quickly learned is that caching is a quick win on performance and caching is super easy to implement. Benchmarking For this blog post, [...]
Jan 31st, 2011
How and why I moved my blog to Amazon EC2 from WordPress.com
On October 30th, 2007, I launched my blog, GregsRamblings.com. At the time, I needed something quick and simple so I went with WordPress.com, a very popular WordPress hosting site. You can have a blog up and running in less than five minutes. Although WordPress.com has served me well, I’ve had a few frustrations along the [...]
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