Category Archives: Web Dev

My wife is a graduate student at Yale University (she is super smart and stuff) in the Schmuttenmaer Research Group (she is the pretty girl on the left in the group photo). Their group had a very old website that they wanted to revamp. I don’t know all the details, but I was very interested [...]

With the announcement of Google’s new Page Speed Service, I’ve been trying to determine whether it is worth the effort of switching my DNS over. You use Page Speed Service by using Google’s DNS servers. When someone requests your site, the request will go to Google. Google gets your page, optimizes CSS, JS, images, etc, [...]

I had the need to get Postfix working with MySQL support today on CentOS 5. The version of Postfix that is in the CentOS yum repo, unfortunately, doesn’t have MySQL support, and I didn’t want to compile from source. Luckily, there is a way to get Postfix with MySQL installed using yum: Caution: These instructions [...]