Server Information
nginx
nginx [engine x] is a HTTP server and mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev.
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
Shockwave Flash Embed
The website contains Adobe Flash content embeded without the use of JavaScript.
PHP
PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.
Analytics and Tracking
Quantcast Measurement
Provides Quantcast with tracking information about your site which anyone can access and view demographic information.
WordPress Stats
Tells owners of The website how many people are visiting the site, where they are coming from and whats most interesting to them.
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.
IE Pinning
Users can pin the site to the Windows start bar.
Twitter Platform
The page embeds the Twitter platform in one method or another.
Content Delivery Network
WordPress Grid
Contains content that may be hosted on the WordPress Grid Hosting CDN.
Widgets
Facebook Like
Allows users to Like items they find on the web, similar to how you Like items within Facebook.
Gravatar Profiles
Creates Gravatar Profiles on the site.
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.
Aggregation Functionality
Pingback Support
A Pingback is one of three types of Linkbacks, methods for Web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents.
RSS
A family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or podcasts.
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
HTML5 DocType
The DOCTYPE is a required preamble for HTML5 websites.
Conditional Comments
The website uses conditional comments that are supported by Microsoft Internet Explorer. They allow web developers to show or hide HTML code based on the version of the viewer's browser.
Friends Network
XHTML Friends Network is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks.
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
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.
Open Graph Protocol
The Open Graph protocol enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph, a open protocol supported by Facebook
Apple Mobile Web Clips Icon
This page contains an icon for iPhone, iPad and iTouch devices.
OpenID
The website supports openid single digital identity via the use of OpenID.
OpenSearch
The OpenSearch description document format can be used to describe a search engine so that it can be used by search client applications.
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.