Well, htaccess to the rescue! I added the following to my .htaccess file, which sped up my site considerably (and also upped my Page Speed score). I opted to set my headers to a long time for both images, css, and js for now, since I don’t really update the look of my site that often. When I do decide to, I’ll most likely rename my js and css files, and removed the old ones.

# Setting Cache Control Headers
# 480 weeks
<filesMatch "\.(ico|pdf|flv|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|js|css|swf)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=290304000, public"
</filesMatch>

# 2 DAYS
<filesMatch "\.(xml|txt)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=172800, public, must-revalidate"
</filesMatch>

# 2 HOURS
<filesMatch "\.(html|htm)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=7200, must-revalidate"
</filesMatch>

Anyone out there have any suggestions on ways to set cache control? This was my first attempt at it, and I’d love some feedback!

//forcing jquery to load the version we want
function my_scripts_method() {
    wp_deregister_script( 'jquery' );
    wp_register_script( 'jquery', 'https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js');
    wp_enqueue_script( 'jquery' );
}    

add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts', 'my_scripts_method');

Add this image to your site at your own risk! Scary times!

SOPA is too blunt. Please veto.

PROTECT IP Act Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.

Tell Congress not to censor the internet NOW! – http://www.fightforthefuture.org/pipa

PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and is moving quickly through Congress. It gives the government and corporations the ability to censor the net, in the name of protecting “creativity”. The law would let the government or corporations censor entire sites– they just have to convince a judge that the site is “dedicated to copyright infringement.”

The government has already wrongly shut down sites without any recourse to the site owner. Under this bill, sharing a video with anything copyrighted in it, or what sites like Youtube and Twitter do, would be considered illegal behavior according to this bill.

According to the Congressional Budget Office, this bill would cost us $47 million tax dollars a year — that’s for a fix that won’t work, disrupts the internet, stifles innovation, shuts out diverse voices, and censors the internet. This bill is bad for creativity and does not protect your rights.

Mozilla is taking action, and so can you.

AddType audio/ogg .ogg

And viola! HTML5 audio in Firefox.

<%@ page import="java.util.*"%>

<%
	Enumeration e;
	e = request.getHeaderNames();
	String userAgent = request.getHeader("user-agent");
%>



<%

	if(userAgent.matches(".*BlackBerry.*")) {
		out.print ("BlackBerries taste yummy.");
	} else if(userAgent.matches(".*Android.*")) {
		out.print ("These aren't the droids you're looking for.");
	} else if(userAgent.matches(".*iPhone.*") || userAgent.matches(".*iPad.*")) {
		out.print ("Pods or pads, doesn't matter.");
	} else {
		out.print ("I'm a PC.");
	}

%>

I’d like to try and integrate some more aspects in the near future, such as my profile picture, and some better semantic implementation of the Open Graph Protocol.

Now, I just need to figure out how to align my like buttons on my blog with the same URLs that get aggregated to my Facebook page…

String url = (request.getRequestURL()).toString();
  if (request.getQueryString() != null) {
   url += '?' + request.getQueryString();
  }

I think so. Also, I believe you have dysentery.

This is definitely a concept I can get behind. Promote JS is trying to get Javascript documentation better indexed by search engines. They are basically telling users to link to, or blog about, JS documentation. Hit up their site and check it out.