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I’m huge fan of AWS services. It just works – don’t need any kind of support, prices are really good. No issues whatsoever. But – of course my nature ask me to check out other options. For example Rackspace . So I registered account, filled out my business and credit details. Just to give a small background – got registered business since 2011 in Australia. I filled out my CC details, phone number and so on. Pretty standard process. I logged in, and start playing with their interface (pretty slow, but I shouldn’t complain yet). The best is about to come…

Another really simple code snippet. This time, we are trying to force particular version of jQuery injecting into WordPress.

CSS Sprites  it was a very popular technique for a long time. Biggest benefit from it: reduce number of the requestes to the server, and speedup whole website / loading image assets. Working with CSS slides is really painful  Usually you are starting from PSD then you have to decouple them to separate images, then merge them again to one image, and then mark position of each element in the CSS file.

Couple useful tools to work with:

Gearman provides a generic application framework to farm out work to other machines or processes that are better suited to do the work.

This solution is truly multiplatform, so we have Client API and Wordkres in multiple languages like Shell, Perl, NodeJS any couple of others (PHP!)