Bryan Pieper's Blog : June 2010

Do you use Safari and miss the reload button? I certainly did until the other day.

Safari 5 now supports extensions. But I have to say that I find it odd that a browser needs an extension for a normal reload button.

First, you have to enable the “Develop” menu.

Go to Safari > Preferences > Advanced. Turn on “Show Develop Menu” in menu bar. Then select “Enable Extensions” from the Develop menu.

Now that you can install extensions, download the Safari Reload Button extension. Once downloaded, install by opening with Safari or dragging it onto the Safari window. Finally, select “Customize Toolbar” from the View menu to add the new button. Reload button restored!

I recently integrated ThePiepers.net with Amazon CloudFront to serve all the media. This has improved the overall site responsiveness and gives my visitors a closer endpoint.

After I setup a simple push method for publishing changes to Amazon S3, I quickly realized that it was extremely inefficient and adds unnecessary charges to my account. Enter Subversion.