iWeb Communities: Blog

The iWeb Tech News Highlights covers web hosting, web development, web design and general technology news and is published at 8.00am EST. For April 17th, here are the highlights:

• Make your site faster and cheaper to operate in one easy step, just by gzipping served content
• GitHub Issue Tracker, a new feature at the code repository service, that will allow developers to manage issues, with a Gmail-like clean interface
• Phusion’s One Year Anniversary Gift: Phusion Passenger 2.2.0. Phusion has released a new version of Passenger that works with nginx. Previously, it was only available for the Apache web server. Good news for Rails developers, who now have more deployment choices.
• Google Shows a 3% Sequential Dip In Revenues: First One Ever. Google also layed off recently engineers and workforce, and stopping recruiting