WordPress 3.0 does some rather (positively) aggressive caching itself, but with nginx behind it we have witnessed our page-load times to be up to 4× faster!

Chasing YSlow and PageSpeed rankings we needed to update the nginx expires headers condition to cater for our plugins’ static files (CSS and JS). Again, not that I have ever particularly noticed but not all plugins reference the latest version of their CSS’ the same way. One comes across:

• .css
• .css?1278974243 (UNIX timestamp)
• .css?ver=2 (variable followed by an integer ONLY)
• .css?ver=absd234 (variable followed by mixed characters)
• .css?version=2.2alpha (variable of any length followed by mixed characters including “.”)

You see where I’m going with this. So after picking up a useful rewrite from StackOverflow – which catered beautifully for Redmine, we were faced with variations in WP we didn’t encounter originally and the script didn’t cover either. Digging deeper into the issue we came up with this, which now fully caches all 0f the above mentioned variations:

if ($request_uri ~* \.(ico|css|js|gif|jpe?g|png|pdf|rar|swf|zip)(\?[0-9]+)?.*$) {
 expires 1M;
 break;
}

This should go into your config file in “/etc/nginx/sites-available/whatever-your-config-file-is-called”.

Hope it helps

Currently we handle all Office 97-2007 Word (*.doc, *.docx) + Word containing Visio, Excel (*.xls, *.xslx), text files (*.txt), rich text format (*.rtf), OpenOffice 1+ all formats, image files (*.png, *.jpeg/jpg, *.gif, *.bmp…). We’re adding support for media files (wav, mp3, mp4, swf, mov) over the next three months using our bespoke media player. We’re also currently testing Microsoft Works and various Mac/Linux related document formats.

We will be releasing a comprehensive list of all document formats supported before the end of July – so stay tuned!

It is of japanese origin. It is updated often! It contains more icons than FAMFAMFAM. It has a shadow AND a non-shadow version. And it is called Fugue (www.pinvoke.com)

16×16 pixel PNG icons that seem to be the new FAMFAMFAM immediately striked me. 2037 reasons to look into DocuView’s CSS again Than you, Yusuke Kamiyamane.

BTW – whilst you’re at Yusuke’s website, do check out the free fonts and the Diagona icons he offers too!

Well it won’t now Everytime you click on a link DocuView searches through the database to see if there have been any updates since and ALWAYS displays the latest active issue (providing there is one) of the linked document regardless of the date the linking document has been created.

You can view documents available to “guests” without having to login, we have even enabled linking to protected documents where by following the link you are presented with a login window that will authorise you to view the document.

I’d like to focus on the key functionality and features of DocuView today, give you a bit of a teaser and hope for your feedback:

• protect your master documents (whether created in Microsoft Office^TM or OpenOffice^TM) – documents get converted to PDF (non-editable, portable, cross platform) format
• manage users through security groups, grant access privileges to folders and documents contained, even system areas (reports, management), create self contained environments that allow users to interact and create/manage documents themselves
• utilising latest technology (open-source server side programming language, database backend to centralise data and resources, tested and working in ALL major browsers (IE6+, Firefox, Safari, Opera)
• operating-system independent environment, that looks, feels and performs the same whether you’re on Mac, Linux or Windows
• constantly under development (and testing) – by re-investing revenue generated – introducing new functionality and enhancing user experience through familiar features and intuitive environment and to make sure we stay ahead of the game and up-to-date with current technologies, strategies and trends
• document tagging for fast and accurate searching (and yes, we’re looking into document indexing based on content)
• wide spectrum of formats supported (MS Word and Excel documents, PDF, scans (TIFF, JPEG, GIF, PNG), OpenOffice documents) and growing by the day
• Web 2.0 technology: user-friendly, intuitive, easy to work with and… nice to look at

DocuView has been developed primarily to meet the requirements of aviation industry, document approving requirements and is capable of dealing with multiple Quality Officers approving documents for several departments independently. We’re currently looking into train’s, ship’s, car’s, power station’s and other industries’ requirements. That’s not to say you wouldn’t be able to use it in your design office, production company, manufacturing premises, as a supplier, landlord, restaurant manager… you name it. The flexibility and versatility of the system doesn’t limit the use of DocuView to any industry at all.

In the following posts I’ll explaining the features of DocuView in more depth. We love our documents, we love DocuView. And we are bringing it to you!