Comments for @iamfrankstallone http://iamfrankstallone.com Making the web a better place to live. Thu, 17 May 2012 10:25:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Comment on IMDb Watchlist by will http://iamfrankstallone.com/imdb-watchlist/#comment-67 will Thu, 17 May 2012 10:25:02 +0000 http://iamfrankstallone.com/?p=21#comment-67 I had the exact same thought and figured, it's really easy to add something to a watchlist as you can just browse the movies and let each movie connect you to an actor or another movie and just click add to watchlist. I want to build up a list of films I've watched in the same way, say, clicking on will smith and seeing that he was in an old film where you think "wow I watched that 10 years ago, but forgot about it" and then want to click "watched", but you can't do that. You have to go into "make a list" and actually type in all the names. How am I supposed to remember the names to all 600+ films I've seen?!?! Serious flaw in the system. I had the exact same thought and figured, it’s really easy to add something to a watchlist as you can just browse the movies and let each movie connect you to an actor or another movie and just click add to watchlist. I want to build up a list of films I’ve watched in the same way, say, clicking on will smith and seeing that he was in an old film where you think “wow I watched that 10 years ago, but forgot about it” and then want to click “watched”, but you can’t do that. You have to go into “make a list” and actually type in all the names. How am I supposed to remember the names to all 600+ films I’ve seen?!?! Serious flaw in the system.

]]> Comment on Thank you WP-Engine & WordCamp Philly! by Jason Cohen http://iamfrankstallone.com/thanks-wp-engine/#comment-3 Jason Cohen Sun, 13 Nov 2011 18:21:38 +0000 http://frankstallone.wpengine.com/?p=6#comment-3 Thanks for the kind words! Good luck on the new theme. WRT speed, besides the usual recommendations (e.g. async Javascript, small image sizes, not too many objects on the page), don't forget about the tools which are already inside WordPress for making things fast. The #1 thing we see theme designers *not* using is the Transient API. It's an easy way to cache anything that is CPU- or I/O-intensive, like processing images or grabbing content from an external site. The Transient API works on 100% of WordPress installations, and on hosts like WP Engine (but not exclusively us!) it's even faster, backed by things like memcached or APC. Thanks for the kind words! Good luck on the new theme.

WRT speed, besides the usual recommendations (e.g. async Javascript, small image sizes, not too many objects on the page), don’t forget about the tools which are already inside WordPress for making things fast.

The #1 thing we see theme designers *not* using is the Transient API. It’s an easy way to cache anything that is CPU- or I/O-intensive, like processing images or grabbing content from an external site.

The Transient API works on 100% of WordPress installations, and on hosts like WP Engine (but not exclusively us!) it’s even faster, backed by things like memcached or APC.

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