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Caching a Page; Saving a Server
A couple months ago, the Archdiocese of Saint Louis announced that a new Archbishop had been chosen (then-Archbishop-elect Robert J. Carlson). For the announcement, the Archdiocese streamed the press conference online, then posted pictures on the St. Louis Review website of the day's events (updated every hour or two).
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Pageviews for April 21, 2009 on archstl.org – note that from 8-10 a.m., the server was practically down from the thousands of hits/requests it was getting. Just before 10 a.m., I enabled the caching described below. We announced everything via Twitter,...View Comments -
Breadcrumb Navigation
I'm working on a site with breadcrumb nav, using the Breadcrumb Navigation XT plugin for Wordpress. But the site uses a static page as the home page vs. the blog home, so when people are on the blog part, they see a wierd Home > Home trail. I've tried modifying the php, but I'm obviously missing something. (My php experience is limited.) Can anyone help me on this?
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Ancient Faith Radio
Has anyone ever listened to Ancient Faith Radio? I think it is out of a small town in Indiana. It is an Orthodox Church, it's too bad the Catholic Church doesn't have an equivalent for the music station.
http://ancientfaith.com/
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Perl
Does anyone else use Perl out here? It's a very handy scripting language for pulling specific data off of websites. Its a little more sticky than Python, but has some very powerful features.
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You Know You're A Web Head When...
You like a particular website and you instinctively right-click and VIEW SOURCE to see what they built it in.
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Remote Software
I've got a client in another state that I'm going to do some remote training with later this week. In the past, I've used Zoho Meeting (free) which has worked OK, but I'm looking for something a bit more robust.
I'd rather not use the more expensive stuff like Webex...any other recommendations free/pay?
I'd prefer something OS-independant (Mac/PC).
Thanks!
Craig
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MassTimes.org - Parish Sacramental Information Online
I'll be honest, I've thought about scraping this site and creating a new one. Does anyone know who created it? They are using .NET, and the forms and searching is, well, less than intuitive shall we say? I've tried advanced searches and nothing works as I would expect it.
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