codeacademy : a good way to learn html,css,php,javascript or jquery

You search a good way for learning some techno like html,css,php,javascript or jquery, you should look at : Codeacademy

This web site helps you to learn easily by making courses and exercises online.
Courses are divided in severeal small courses and small exercises.
For example, the lesson explains how to set id on html element and you have to modify the html.

Example :

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Grails : turn on GZip compression

If you want to improve your web site performance, you should enable GZip compression.

What is GZip compression ?

It's simple : you zip date before sending it over the net :

1. Server compress data (HTML code, CSS, JavaScript...)
2. Data go through the net
3. the navigator uncompress data when it arrives before showing them

It's describe in HTTP/1.1

Is performance really better ?

You can check it here : http://stevesouders.com/hpws/rule-gzip.php

Grails et GZip

To enable GZip compression, it's simple.You have to install plugin ui-performance :

grails install-plugin ui-performance

Then restart Grails.

Comments :

• If you want to be sure that GZip compression is enabled, you can go in "Audits" tabs on Chrome developpement tools.
• ui-performance plugin do also severeal things like rules of Steve Souders and Yahoo performance team : http://stevesouders.com/hpws/rules.php  

An Introduction To Web Development With Grails 2

An Introduction To Web Development With Grails 2

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Free learning by Microsoft

Microsoft offers free IT learning courses  :

http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com