http://newestindustry.org Discussions on Web Performance for Business and IT Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:50:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's November 14 2008. Charles Windsor is 60 today. Forty - Oh yeah? http://newestindustry.org/2008/11/14/happy/ I fired up the Boston FIoS measurement location today after a couple of days off, and found that suddenly FIoS doesn't like the BitTorrent. The line of purple dots all indicate measurements that reported an error code. All of those measurements come from Boston FiOS. See the real-time graph here. Accident? Design? ... http://newestindustry.org/2008/11/13/grabperf-fios-and-bittorrent-dont-play-nice/ In the last 24 hours, thanks to the help of some willing volunteers, GrabPERF has seen the addition of three new measurement locations: Dallas, TX (USA) Virginia (USA) London, UK All of these location have been graciously provided by the team at e-planning. Thanks to all of you who volunteer your machines and bandwidth for ... http://newestindustry.org/2008/11/12/grabperf-three-new-measurement-locations/ My new MacBook arrived two weeks ago, and I felt that I had spent enough time with it to actually make some useful comments on the good, the bad, and the headbangingly frustrating. The Finder Dear Apple: Shoot the Finder development team. Thanks. I have switched to Path Finder as a Finder replacement. ... http://newestindustry.org/2008/11/03/two-weeks-with-the-macbook/ Personal Brand, Reputation, and The Mistake of Closed SourceA video description of why reputation outranks brand every time http://newestindustry.org/2008/10/31/video-the-mistake-of-the-personal-brand/ Have I mentioned that Greg House is one of my mentors? more lol celebs! http://newestindustry.org/2008/10/23/house-personal-ad/ MacBook - Day One http://newestindustry.org/2008/10/21/macbook-day-one/ For the last week, I have been using Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) on my personal laptop. I can say that the experience has been mostly transparent for me, even with the need for a complete re-build last night after an attempt to install a complex theme replacement. I can say that ... http://newestindustry.org/2008/10/19/moving-from-windows-my-first-week-with-ubuntu-hardy-heron/ Today's Web interfaces are all about the Flash (literally). Smooth charting, cool effects, callouts to references -- ways to try and simplify complex data collections. Problem-solving and diagnosis requires a far deeper dive than the flashiest interface could ever provide, because it comes down to the numbers. The actual measurements that ... http://newestindustry.org/2008/10/16/web-performance-nice-display-now-show-me-the-data/ When I meet with clients, I am always astounded by the strength of the silos that exist inside companies. Business, Marketing, IT, Server ops, Development, Network ops, Finance. In the same house, sniping and plotting to ensure that their team has the most power. Or so it seems to the outsider. Organizations ... http://newestindustry.org/2008/10/16/web-performance-the-strength-of-corporate-silos/