After my initial thought of checking out Habari, and the encouraging comment from Skippy, I decided to go ahead and investigate Habari for myself, so I downloaded Habari 0.4.1 and took it for a spin.

Well, after running with ALL options in the wp_options table set to no for autoload for about 3 days, I can say it doesn’t really make much difference. If anything, there may be a slight decrease in performance, but nothing broke that I could see, and there really wasn’t a significant difference in memory usage [...]

Well, in a bid to see if Wordpress really needs to preload all those options set to autoload, and to see if it makes a difference on the memory consumption I detailed earlier. I’ve set them all to “no” on this site so nothing is autoloaded. If you encounter any problems, please let me [...]

Did you know Wordpress is one major memory hog? No? Neither did I until I started getting “500 Internal Server” errors after having my hosting account at Joyent moved from FreeBSD to OpenSolaris, with it’s resource management functionality being used to it’s full extent.
You’ll be surprised to hear this appears to be a [...]

Well, I’ve jumped on the bandwagon. You can now comment using your OpenID instead of specifying a username, password and URI. Just enter your OpenID URI and post your comment. Your nickname and email will be obtained from your SREG data saved on your OpenID server.
Unfortunately, as a side effect of [...]

Woohooo!!! Gmail has finally got IMAP support:

I read about this earlier today and couldn’t wait to give it a go. This is one of the big features I’ve been waiting for.
Well, so far so good. Your “Labels” appear a folders and it seems to function as you would expect a normal IMAP server [...]

First, some clarification. YSlow is a pluggin for Firebug, not Firefox. It’s installed as a Firefox pluggin, but it actually enhances Firebug. Accordingly it requires Firebug to be installed.
YSlow adds a new YSlow tab to Firebug and in this tab it rates your page on the scale A to F, based on [...]

This came as a surprise to me: you can now get Safari (the Mac web browser) for Windows.

Whilst it’s only in beta at the moment, it’s good to see another good FREE browser become available for Windows. The more good FREE browsers for Windows there are, the better (I’ve been having a [...]