Seb Duggan

I've recently turned on gzip compression for all static pages on my web server running IIS6, and am now enjoying faster speeds and lower bandwidth.

However, in my investigations I came across a number of bugs in pre-SP2 IE6 (no surprises there) which means that gzipped CSS and Javascript files can be improperly cached and so intermittently mangled.

Not wanting to turn compression off just because of problems with this (thankfully declining) travesty of a browser, I hit on a way of bypassing compression for the affected browsers.

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I've created another plugin for Mango - this time to integrate Woopra tracking and analytics.

Woopra's currently in beta, but I've been using it for some months now and it looks great; and with an API due to be opened up soon, there are lots of groovy features to come...

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It’s been an embarrassingly long time since my last post, but I’m back now and have finally got around to building a custom skin for Mango.

I expect the design may be tweaked here and there over the coming weeks; but I just wanted to get it out there to see how it looks…

I also hope to devote more time to developing for Mango now, so watch this space!