Several times in my career i have played around with ImageMagick and have always found the documentation of its usage with PHP to be severely lacking. Or in most cases though the problem originates with the server.
Speed up Wordpress plugins
One of the biggest problems with a Wordpress site is optimizing its speed. If you use the popular plug-in for FireFox Yslow, or Google’s page speed they will always tell you to move the JavaScript to the footer in order to make your page load faster.
Script to help diagnose Wordpress speed
Ever wanted to know exactly how many times your browser is querying the server? Or how long it takes for you page to load? Even Yslow cannot detect these queries!
Speeding up wordpress with .htaccess and Wp Super Cache
One of the problems that it seems I am always faced with when building a Wordpress site is speed. Previously all my speed problems were directly related to my old host (Network Solutions), the latency for their shared hosting was atrocious.
New Site Re-Design!
Ok first post for my new redesign, yes it looks really sparse and broken but, the idea here is to finish all of the more advanced features of my site while blogging about the process. Cool right? Ok maybe not that cool, but at least you get to see exactly what is happening behind the curtain as I build.

