Curious Cat Coding | Tips on Code and SysAdmin for Web Applications

If you just want to quickly copy the text of a file to the clipboard while in terminal you can just use:
cat [filename]
That will display the full text of the file to the terminal and you can just highlight the text and copy.

Trackbacks and pingbacks stopped working on several of my blogs. It turned out to be quite time consuming figuring out what was causing the problem. Eventually the following worked:
Installing php-xml
sudo apt-get install php-xml

Determining the performance of web site and web applications is important. In order to create sites users want to visit they need compelling content but they also need to provide the performance users expect.
One of the wonderful aspects of creating web applications is the availability of software as a service solutions to meet your needs. These include monitoring tools and tools for testing the performance of your sites....

I have pointed out for more than a decade how poorly many web pages are coded. They often assume a very low latency connection and without it the user experience is poor.
Most of the web really sucks if you have a slow connection
The flaw in the “page weight doesn’t matter because average speed is fast” is that if you average the connection of someone in my apartment building (which is wired for 1Gb internet) and someone on 56k dialup, you get an average speed of 500 Mb/s. That...