Category / Geekery

December 19, 2012

Have you noticed how fast some sites are these days?

google-angular

Have you noticed that some of the sites you use have been getting super fast lately? Web pages seem to respond almost too quickly. Try typing a search term into Google and see how quickly the suggested results come back. The technology behind all this are the new Javascript frameworks, with names like Angular, Ember, …

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March 28, 2012

Manage SSL redirection in Nginx using maps, and save the universe

We use the Nginx web serverĀ for the majority of our websites at Red Ant. It’s incredibly flexible, and built for speed (freakishly fast in fact). One drawback though is that finding solutions for some of the more curly configuration problems can be difficult. Nginx is relatively new and has had a fairly rapid release schedule …

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