More advanced Joomla! Performance tweaks.

I have a love/hate relationship with Joomla!. It’s an awesome tool, it just sucks. My biggest beef with it, is that it’s slow. It renders content on the fly, for every page load. This is cool, if we used some of the more interactive features, but we don’t, so it’s just wasted overhead. Joomla! has …

Linux CP command that creates new directories as needed

I am making note of this here as I had to tweak what I had found after a fairly long Google search. This is a custom shell script function I added to my .bashrc to provide the copying of files with the ability to create new directories as needed. I needed to merge several websites …

Space blanket tarp tent.

I wanted to try to make a lighter tent then the 45lb monster that I own. It really sucks to hike it a mile into the woods. So I made a tarp tent. Out of space blankets. So I now have a space-tent? I used two cheap 52.5 x 82.5  aluminized polyester blankets I finally …

Walking stick shelter.

I have spent some time camping this summer. A few trips have been ultra lite trips. I use those space blankets as my blanket for the night. They suck. But they are light and cheap. And they are very noisy. Very noisy. Noisy to sleep under and noisy to pack back up and noisy to …

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