A must read for every web developer

This post is a collection of useful links that I frequently use. Hope you find them useful too. Feel free to post you favorite links and I'll add them to this post.

Tips
1. Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Website
2. URL Rewriting
3. Compressing PNG Files
4. How to create ICO Files in Photoshop?
5. Create valid SSL certificate recognized by most browsers @ www.startssl.com

Frameworks
1. My very own Wingsource Project
Currently under development. Check SVN repository to find all the exciting stuff, Samik and I are working on

2. Enabling security in a web application using SpringSecurity
The article is slightly outdated (it's written for SpringSecurity 2.0.4; the latest one is v3.0.4) but, still useful to get started with SpringSecurity.

3. Jquery - My favorite Javascript Framework

Enable gzip compression on Apache web server in 3 easy steps

Make the following changes in apache/conf/httpd.conf :-

1) Uncomment "LoadModule deflate_module modules/mod_deflate.so"

2) Add "SetOutputFilter DEFLATE" inside <<IfModule mime_module> section

3) Add "AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/javascript text/css" right after SetOutputFilter... line.

Restart Apache. You should see a significant improvement in the turnaround time for your web applications. This setting works for all responses tunneled trough Apache for ex:- for java web applications deployed on a Tomcat integrated with apache web server etc.