Here is a fun problem I came a cross today.
The client wanted to password protect one category in their Genesis WordPress site.
I looked for a plugin but they where all too complex for what I needed.

So I wrote this little function and placed it in the theme’s function file:

Remember that this function is written to work with a Genesis WordPress website.

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Link: http://www.tomsplanner.com/

Life Hacker article: http://lifehacker.com/5401443/toms-planner-is-an-impressive-intuitive-project-scheduling-tool

Sprites are not created to optimize the size of the graphics used on a site.
They are created to minimize the number of http requests made from the browser to the server.
The idea is that the fewer http requests the browser makes the faster the page loads.

So what can you do to speed up your site?
Combined your files, combine multiple JavaScripts into one script, combine multiple CSS files into one style sheet, and use CSS Sprites and image maps

Decrease the number of components on your page to reduces the number of HTTP requests required for the page to load.

For further info on this view the Yahoo developer article at http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#num_http.

This is going to be awesome to code for! I spent as much time as I could in the beta release so I can’t wait to create a theme that takes advantage of all the great new features.