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Useful MySQL Commands

To login (from unix shell) use -h only if needed.

Reply-to address in Mac Mail

Mail is preferred email client of many mac users. One of the issues of using Mac Mail is the setting of reply to address. Particularly for users who have multiple accounts from providers like gmail and wish that their reply emails should go to their company address. There is a solution for users who have one account and wish to set a permanent reply-to address to all their emails.

Website Optimization

Recently a friend asked me about the YSlow score of our site and I was surprised to find a score of 86. Well, only good webmasters know how difficult it is to gain those extra milliseconds and reduce the page load time to less than half a second. But when you do, you know you have own half the battle in getting good traffic to your site.

Optimize Joomla

Joomla is one of the most user friendly Content Management Systems available today. However, it can suffer from the performance and page loadings.  Here are some points that should help to imporve performances.  Performance boost is also reported for Lighttpd (It's MUCH faster than Apache) server. But we find sometime it causes load spikes. So, you should use it after a few trial experiments. Most of the followings can be easily checked if you install firebug and yslow on your firefox browser.