Here are some interesting links from Start-up news:

Paul Graham’s Y-combinator has created new news site called Start-up news. Here is Paul Graham’s annoucement for the launch. He states the intention of the site as

..the most important goal of news.ycombinator was to create a place where founders and would-be founders can meet and talk.

He is also using the forum as a means to interact with potential Y-combinator candidates.

Again, Paul Graham is leading the way on how to promote ideas and encourage would-be entrepreneurs.

Here are the slides from my talk this afternoon.

Here’s a tip on how to turn on HTTPD compression on your php site.

Option 1) Edit your php.ini file

; Transparent output compression using the zlib library
; Valid values for this option are 'off', 'on', or a specific buffer size
; to be used for compression (default is 4KB)
; Note: Resulting chunk size may vary due to nature of compression. PHP
;       outputs chunks that are few handreds bytes each as a result of compression.
;       If you want larger chunk size for better performence, enable output_buffering
;       also.
; Note: output_handler must be empty if this is set 'On' !!!!
;       Instead you must use zlib.output_handler.
zlib.output_compression = On

Option 2) If you haven’t got access to the php.ini file. Create this .htaccess file to your home directory to turn on compression.

AddType application/x-httpd-php php .htm .html
php_flag zlib.output_compression on

I’m speaking at the WDANZ conference tomorrow. I’m speaking about two things close to my heart - “ZoomIn” and “Optimising websites for Speed”.

I look forward to meeting web developers from all over the Canterbury region.

Interesting stats from Rankr this week . MSN has just jumped past google and trade me on Rankr stats this week.

I wonder if Vista has anything to do with this ????

Our blog is now using Mephisto (0.7.2). I had a few problems getting the conversion to behave. I have tested the comments and everything seems to be working fine.

For those that are interested, I had a few issues converting our blog from Typo. Here are some tips on how to convert it.

• The typo conversion does not import the sections / categories. I had to add the categories manually and re-allocate all the articles to the categories.
• All of the user were converted, but the admin user was allocated to all the articles.
• The layout system can be a bit of a pain, especially working on the home page. Some times you need to delete the index.html to see the changes.
• The wiki is ok as a resource, the google group is better.
• Here is a snippet of our layout.liquid template that contains code for the sidebar to display monthly archive, category archive and last 5 comments.

Recent Comments

{{ site | latest_comments:5 | assign_to:”comments” }}

{% for comment in comments %}
• {{ comment.author }} on {{comment | link_to_article: article.comment }}

{% endfor %}

Categories

{% for section in site.sections %}
• {{ section.name }} ({{section.articles_count }})

{% endfor %}

{% endif %}


We’ve just added over 5700 Auckland bus stops to ZoomIn. Now you can search for bus stops in and around Auckland eg. Mount Albert, Mission Bay or Henderson.

A big thanks to Auckland Regional Transport Authority and Maxx team for helping us get this content online.