Google Chrome Disable Cache (Updated!)

As a web developer web browser caches are annoying because I often want to see the current state of the page on the server.

To disable Google Chrome’s Cache copy and paste the following into terminal on your Mac:
chmod 222 /Users/dmmcintyre3/Library/Caches/Google/Chrome/Default/Cache/index
chmod 222 /Users/dmmcintyre3/Library/Caches/Google/Chrome/Default/Media\ Cache/index
Click Here to Test but don’t clear any cache just reload the page without using the refresh button.

Wordpress Post By Email

The wordpress post by email thing was hard to figure out, usually resulting in a blank post with the correct title and that’s it. I have figured out the best way for it to work.

1: Configure the email receiving options.
2: Set your emall client to plain text, but write in HTML (I think using the HTML option in your email client would work, but rich text does not)
3:Set a cron job on your web host to wp-mail.php

Posted by email

Thoughts on my 13 inch MacBook Pro

I have had my 13 inch MacBook Pro about a month now and here are some of my thoughts on it

Overall it’s great and I love it. The performance is so much better than the PowerBook and about the same as my hackintosh on the cpu front but graphics is so much faster on the MacBook Pro. (I was using a hacked version of the GMA x3100 driver that would not enable core image or quartz extreme)

Sound Issues:

The volume of the speakers does not go low enough. This issue my hackintosh had in Windows but not Mac. There is too big of a jump between the notches using the volume buttons on the keyboard. Also, in some games enabling hardware 3D sound causes it to die, often to come back temporarily when quitting the game. This would sometimes require a reboot to fix. Simply disabling hardware 3D in the sound options would fix the issue.

My Wordpress Anti-spam methods

I am pretty sure I get exactly 0 automated bot spams. The only spam I get is human spam. I don’t use any form of captcha anywhere. How do I do this? First off, I changed the comment form to not even use recognizable field names. Second, I added dummy fields and if they are filled in the comment is blocked. One uses a similar name to one of the default field names. I still moderate comments and I will edit them if part is spam and another is not.

Nofollow is not used in the url box. It did no good anyway so what’s the point? Make a worthwhile comment on my blog and you can have 1 dofollow link. Links within the comment are still nofollow.

Paradox Servers Review Part 2

Paradox Servers has continued to be the best web host I have used. Today I was having an issue adding a cron job and I posted about the issue on their forum and in 16 minutes the issue was fixed. How many free hosts have such a short response time? On one of my previous web hosts the staff could not even figure out what I was asking when I needed help.

If you look in my footer you will see the time it took to generate this page and the 15 minute load average of their server. When I did a download test right after the new server was up I hit the download limit of my home internet connection. Download time of my homepage is 1.15 seconds on a 768 Kbps connection. (Really 96 kilobytes, ISP’s like to show kilobits which are 1/8 of a kilobyte)

Firebug extension showing the download time of my homepage



0.5 second load time from Google Webmaster Tools