We have couple options: pigz  and pbzip2 .

tar -c --use-compress-program=pigz -f my_archive.tar.gz /home/archive 

The other trick useful trick is that you can exclude some directories or files

tar -zcvf my_archive.tar.gz --exclude='cache' --exclude='.git' /home/archive

Quite often we are asking this simple question. Where we can answer for that ? On this website:  gs.statcounter.com

BrowserStack is well known service which provides awesome tools to test your website against different browsers and operating systems. It’s very handy when it comes to professional QA testing.

Not everyone knows, that from that place  you can also download virtual machines for free. On this page Virtual Machine  you can pull multiple VM images with IE8 / IE 9 and different versions of windows.

Codeception

Modern PHP testing for everyone  codeception.com

FileAPI

FileAPI — a set of javascript tools for working with files. Multiupload, drag’n’drop and chunked file upload. Images: crop, resize and auto orientation by EXIF  github.com/mailru/FileAPI

RainLoop

FREE, MODERN & FAST WEB-BASED EMAIL CLIENT  rainloop.net

ANIMATED CHECKBOXES

ANIMATED CHECKBOXES AND RADIO BUTTONS WITH SVG tympanus.net

Odometer

TRANSITION NUMBERS WITH EASE   github.hubspot.com/odometer/docs/welcome/

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…