Jan 10, 2009
Minify getting out there
Interest in Minify seems to be picking up:
- Version 2.1.1 is approaching 51K downloads. This is almost 5x the total for all previous versions.
- More issues fixed. Several developers have cornered down bugs and submitted patches and we’re getting more experience on misconfigured servers (e.g. invalid DOCUMENT_ROOTs). There’s one particular bug I want fixed before pushing out 2.1.2.
- Chris Edwards contributed an APC-based cache class for Minify (personally untested) that should make Minify super fast.
- Yahoo! Dav Glass shows how to use Minify as a local handler for YUI, particularly for serving over SSL.
- For WordPress users, lyncd has integrated Minify_HTML into the WP Super Cache plugin. (Minifying WP theme CSS/JS files is already pretty easy.)
- No Droids Allowed has integrated Minify into a CodeIgniter project.
- Jason Leveille is using Minify in his Simple MC (Simple Managed Content).
- Eran Galperin is using Minify in his startup Octabox (the site screams) and wrote a nice Minify deployment guide.
- Gordon Franke created sfMinifyPlugin, a Minify plugin for Symfony 1.0. This appears to use v2.0, which lacks plenty of bug fixes, so beware.
- Cédric Walter is preparing to release com_minify, a Minify plugin for Joomla!.
- I introduced in the User Guide how to apply custom minifier functions to individual sources.
Any ideas on how to make it better?
Jan 13, 2009 | 1:07 PM
Glad to see the usage of Minify is picking up! Thanks for the link as well. Unfortunately, SimpleMC has a mountain of work to get over before I would consider it really usable in production. I will be moving the project over to GitHub and hopefully it will pick up a little bit of traction.
Again, great work!!
Jan 18, 2009 | 5:26 PM
Also: Minify helper for CakePHP
Feb 3, 2009 | 11:47 AM
Do you plan to ever release a tutorial to make it run OUTSIDE the public folder? Because other than that I’m absolutely loving it. It’s just not transparent enough when used the “standard way”.
Also, can haz twitter. :P
Feb 8, 2009 | 7:36 AM
Hey Steve,
Just wanted to quickly stop by to thank you for your great work on Minify. I have created a Magento Extension which utilises Minify to great success. It’s almost another 2K for your download total ;)