Let’s start it off with a great quote: “To understand recursion, you first need to understand recursion”

Before I get to the tips, I thought I’d mention something that’s been irking me a little bit lately. Why do people minify server-side code!

I absolutely love it when people provide assistance in the form of code samples. I would urge people to keep such examples “maxified”!

Example:

$test.=’test’;

Why not

$test .= ‘test’;

Easier to read, right? Okay, enough of that – let’s see what I learned this month:

  1. I’ve used Amazon EC2 to setup 2 or 3 server instances this month. It’s been a positive experience, except for one really big thing:When I create a 32 GB volume, it only allocates 8GB of space for use on the drive. There’s a whole bag of tricks you can use to adjust your partitions (or whatever the actual process is) to use the full allocate space. But, I didn’t want to attempt this on a production server.

    Lesson:  If you go with EC2, verify that your drive actually has the full amount of space allocated to it before you go to production!

    Edit: I pieced together a solution in the snippet:
    Linux Resize Amazon EC2 Linux Partition (really, I just logged my keystrokes)

  2. Get ready to grab an SSL certificate for all of your sites. It looks like HTTP/2 will be limited to secure connections only.In addition, at the end of April 2015, Mozilla announced that it is officially deprecating the HTTP protocol.
  3. The #CSS :only-child and :only-of-type pseudo-classes aren’t well-known. But, they can be useful to call out single list elements if needed.
  4. The Google search spider can now execute and index JavaScript. So say goodbye to hiding elements with JavaScript.
  5. MySQL is working on an HTTP API. This would allow you to query the database over HTTP/HTTPS and get a JSON-formatted response.
  6. Need to make sure that your white text is visible when overlayed on any image. There’s a real quick CSS solution to add a single-pixel-width “stroke” to the text:
    text-shadow: -1px -1px 0 #000, 1px -1px 0 #000, -1px 1px 0 #000, 1px 1px 0 #000;

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