14 Rules for Faster-Loading Web Sites, from Steve Souders

High Performance Web Sites

 

Prometheus, open-source service monitoring system and time series database from SoundCloud

I LOVE SOUNDCLOUD!

From time to time I read their tech blog…
Today I’v found Prometheus! Hooray SoundCloud! Hooray!

Prometheus

An open-source service monitoring system and time series database.
Prometheus is developed in the open and has a growing community outside of SoundCloud.

 

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VideoJS – full width

So,

I’m deploying a VideoJS on a website since HTML5 player player doesn’t has sound control…. I want the player to have 100% of the div’s width…. any normal attempt – css, inline css blablabla didn’t worked….
From several solutions that I’v found on the interwebs 🙂 this was the one that worked out… THIS ONE! –> http://jsfiddle.net/alexbell/Zs5WB/

It was posted on VideoJS – Auto height based on aspect ratio #771  by baloneysandwiches.
On his post there’s a reference for a 2009 article on A List Apart – Creating Intrinsic Ratios for Video.

 

gmail SMTP server and those kinda sh*ts

To send emails using Gmail:

SMTP Host: smtp.gmail.com
SMTP Port: 587
SSL Protocol: OFF
TLS Protocol: ON
SMTP Username: (your Gmail username – email -)
SMTP Password: (your Gmail password)

To receive mail from Gmail

POP3 Host: pop.gmail.com
POP3 Port: 995
TLS Protocol: ON
POP3 Username: (your Gmail username – email -)
POP3 Password: (your Gmail password)