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Month: March 2019

WordPress makes up One-Third of the Web

WordPress makes up One-Third of the Web

Published by Stanley Sim on March 17, 2019

The path here has been very exciting. In 2005, we were celebrating 50,000 downloads. Six years later, in January 2011, WordPress was powering 13.1% of websites. And now, early in 2019, we are powering 33.4% of sites. https://wordpress.org/news/2019/03/one-third-of-the-web/ I started using Joomla in 2009 to create my learning site. After that, I started using WordPress and Drupal, exploring the power of the three different Content Management Systems. I settled down with WordPress because it is easiest CMS to use and it is powerful. Its custom post types and custom fields allow anyone to create any type of web sites, from…

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Comparison between LiteSpeed with LSCache and Nginx with Super Cache

Comparison between LiteSpeed with LSCache and Nginx with Super Cache

Published by Stanley Sim on March 16, 2019

The test compares a LiteSpeed Web Server and LSCache to Nginx and Super Cache. PHP is a slow language. A website is slow if every request by users require PHP to retrieve content from the database. As such, caching plays an important part to speed up a website. LiteSpeed Web Server provides a free WordPress caching plugin called LSCache. Together with the LiteSpeed Web Server, it beats Nginx and Super Cache by the following: without Keep-Alive, LiteSpeed Web Server and LSCache beats Nginx and Super Cache by 5 times with Keep-Alive, LiteSpeed Web Server and LSCache beats Nginx and Super…

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Installing Fonts on iOS Devices

Installing Fonts on iOS Devices

Published by Stanley Sim on March 10, 2019

There are situations when you need to open a Microsoft Office file on you iPad. When you did it, a prompt informing you that you do not have the necessary fonts, and the display may look different. On a Mac, you could add additional fonts into the Fonts Library. However, you do not have access rights to the file structure on an iPad. Although there are third party apps that allow you to add fonts to an iPad, you could also do it for free if you have a Mac. To install additional fonts on an iPad, you need to…

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App Development with Swift – Part 2

App Development with Swift – Part 2

Published by Stanley Sim on March 9, 2019

After two terms of running a weekly course on App Development with Swift, there are thoughts to the curriculum and resources that Apple developed for students to learn about coding in Swift. Curriculum The course has two main resources that run hand in hand: the iBook App Development with Swift and its resource files. The student resource files contains Playground files and the book’s source codes together with needed media files for some projects described in the book. There are also accompanying resources for teachers. The first is the teacher’s guide to the iBook. The second contains answers to the…

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