Server Information
Content Delivery Network
This page contains links that give the impression that some of the site contents are stored on a content delivery network.
Varnish
Varnish is a web accelerator / reverse proxy caching server.
Content Management Systems
WordPress
WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.
Frameworks
Adobe Dreamweaver
Based on the use of certain javascript functions, this page contains code generated, at least initially, by Dreamweaver.
Advertising
Federated Media Publishing
FM represents outstanding authors whose sites cater to cultural influencers, technology decision makers, early adopters and business leaders.
Google Ad Partner Services
Google Adsense Partner Program is being used on this site.
Google Adsense
A contextual advertising solution for delivering Google AdWords ads that are relevant to site content pages.
Analytics and Tracking
Chartbeat
Live traffic monitoring of your website.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics offers a host of compelling features and benefits for everyone from senior executives and advertising and marketing professionals to site owners and content developers.
JavaScript Libraries
jQuery
JQuery is a fast, concise, JavaScript Library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.
SWFObject
SWFObject is a small Javascript file used for embedding Adobe Flash content. The script can detect the Flash plug-in in all major web browsers (on Mac and PC) and is designed to make embedding Flash movies as easy as possible.
Widgets
Intense Debate
Intense Debate is a sophisticated external comment system for WordPress blogs.
Wordpress Plugins
Plugins are tools to extend the functionality of WordPress. The website uses various plugins from WordPress to provide additional functionality. Some of them may be listed here.
WP Super Cache
WP Super Cache is a page cache generation tool for WordPress.
Aggregation Functionality
Really Simple Discovery
Really Simple Discovery is a way to help client software find the services needed to read, edit, or "work with" weblogging software.
Live Writer Support
Windows Live Writer Tagging Support Schema
Document Information
XHTML Transitional
The website claims XHTML Transitional status. XHTML 1.0 Transitional is the same as HTML 4.01 Transitional, but follows XML syntax rules. It supports everything found in XHTML 1.0 Strict, but also permits the use of a number of elements and attributes that are judged presentational, in order to ease the transition from HTML 3.2 and earlier. These include center, u, strike, and applet.
Canonical Content Tag
Public specification of a preferred URL for a page allows search engines to understand the original location for content.
Javascript
JavaScript is a scripting language most often used for client-side web development. Its proper name is ECMAScript, though "JavaScript" is much more commonly used. The website uses JavaScript.
Cascading Style Sheets
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML
Encoding
UTF-8
UTF-8 (8-bit UCS/Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode. It is the preferred encoding for web pages.