Links for 25 May 2010
Posted on 25 May 2010 in Daily Links (3 comments)
GTmetrix - Website Speed and Performance Optimization
For all the web developers out there in the hood, this is quite a nice tool that helps you optimise your website for faster loading. Judged on the results, this site isn't too bad already although it's given me some ideas to help just shave away a little at the speed, and you'll start seeing the results as I slowly replace some of the almost unmaintainable code that's running this site at the minute. Don't expect it to make a drastic change to the way you view Planet Bods, but overall it will make some small differences.
6 Music closure 'defies belief', says music industry | Media | guardian.co.uk
"The BBC's own charter makes crystal clear that the corporation is specifically tasked with stimulating creativity and cultural excellence. It defies belief, therefore, that the BBC is proposing to close a radio station that excels at doing exactly this, particularly when 6 Music's audience is growing in leaps and bounds and virtually the entire UK music community is united in support of it."
Boris Johnson urges Londoners to grow food in coffee cups - Wimbledon Guardian
Pah. Rubbish. An old hiking boot is much better! I have two on our balcony with dwarf beans growing in them!
Government wants 'value for money' from £16bn Crossrail - BBC News
Be afraid...
George Lamb to leave 6 Music - Radio Today
I'm gutted I tell ya. This is going to completely screw up my weekend radio regime. I mean, I might have to actually retune my radio to 6music on a Saturday morning. Terrible...
Sky News ditches weather presenters - guardian.co.uk
Cost cutting hidden under the banner of "exploring new ways of delivering content". Expect Francis Wilson to appear somewhere on regional TV weather soon.
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Greg said:
I see your Hatty-A and raise you a UTF-8!
Posted on 31 May 2010 at 12:58 PM
Andrew Bowden said:
Bloomin' weird characters...
Posted on 31 May 2010 at 1:08 PM
Andrew Bowden said:
Seems Movable Type 5 handles characters differently to Movable Type 4 - I've never had much joy with MT4 and UTF-8 so was still using iso-8859-1. But now UTF-8 seems to work properly hence causing A hatty pounds. Well until I changed the character encoding in the HTML anyway
Posted on 1 June 2010 at 1:22 PM