Tagged “web development”

A PSA: Lion and .local Domain Names September 2011
Do you enjoy your hair? Would you prefer not to pull it out while waiting for your local Apache server on Mac OS X to deliver a page to you?

If you use Mac OS X Lion and have development sites set up at .local addresses, you should immediately move them to any other fake TLD. The .local address space is resolved for Bonjour and as a result any request to a .local name will not hit /etc/hosts first, but will search for Bonjour hosts first.

I found this Stack Exchange question on the subject tonight after getting frustrated with curl seemingly hanging for several seconds on each request.

Instead, I switched all of my local dev sites from $DOMAIN.local to $DOMAIN.dev. The results are staggering.
Need for Speed June 2009
I've been doing some pretty exciting things recently with website performance. I always disliked doing IT work in the past, but the challenge of setting a server up to be able to withstand crushing traffic is now quite intriguing to me.