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		<title>Career Reform &#8211; From Analyst to Consultant</title>
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For many years my professional title has included the word &#8220;consultant&#8221;, and with it the gravitas that comes with being able to use that term. In the cold, hard light of my early-40s, in all honesty I have say that I was not a consultant for most of that time: I was an analyst.
Analyst versus [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newestindustry.org/2010/03/19/career-reformfrom-analyst-to-consultant/</link>
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		<title>Smartphones: On Moving Back To Blackberry</title>
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A couple of weeks ago, I moved my mobile life back to a Blackberry Bold 9700 from T-Mobile after being on a Dash 3G  for the last 6 months.
It&#8217;s like breathing air again.
Admittedly, I am not the typical modern smartphone user. I prefer a full keyboard over a touchscreen, and I still operate in a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newestindustry.org/2010/03/12/smartphones-on-moving-back-to-blackberry/</link>
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		<title>The Complexity of Web Performance</title>
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Helping a colleague this week, we uncovered some odd behavior with a site whose performance he was analyzing. Upon first glance, it was clear that this site had a performance issue &#8211; they had HTTP persistence disabled. Immediate red flag in the areas of network overhead and geographic latency.
Further digging exposed something more sinister. It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newestindustry.org/2010/03/03/the-complexity-of-web-performance/</link>
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		<title>Compression and the Browser &#8211; Who Supports What?</title>
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The title is a question I ask because I hear so many different views and perspectives about HTTP compression from the people I work with, colleagues and customers alike.
There appears to be no absolute statement about the compression capabilities of all current (or in-use) browsers anywhere on the Web.
My standard line is: If your customers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newestindustry.org/2010/02/10/compression-and-the-browser-who-supports-what/</link>
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		<title>The Rocky Mountain Parks: A Privilege Unappreciated</title>
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Ken Burns&#8217; tale of the US National Parks reminds me of a heritage that I have, for most of my life, taken for granted. It was in another country, but it is a heritage that I have assumed will always be there.
I grew up amongst the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks. Dead center amongst them you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newestindustry.org/2009/09/29/the-rocky-mountain-parks-a-privilege-unappreciated/</link>
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		<title>If you have Wordpress, Use WP Super Cache</title>
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I just did a quick experiment to validate my hunch, and it&#8217;s true &#8211; WP Super Cache can cut your HTML load time in half in your WP deployment. Just check out the GrabPERF Measurement that backs this up.
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		<link>http://newestindustry.org/2009/09/11/if-you-have-wordpress-use-wp-super-cache/</link>
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		<title>Effective Web Performance: The Wrong 80 Percent</title>
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Steve Souders is the current king of Web performance gurus. His mantra, which is sound and can be borne out by empirical evidence, is that 80% of performance issues occur between the Web server and the Web browser. He offers a fantastically detailed methodology for approaching these issues.
But fixing the 80% of performance issues that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newestindustry.org/2009/09/10/effective-web-performance-the-wrong-80-percent/</link>
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		<title>GrabPERF &#8211; Database Failure</title>
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The GrabPERF database server failed sometime early this morning. The hosting facility is working to install a new machine, and then will begin the long process of restoring from backups and memory.
Updates will be posted here.
UPDATE &#8211; Sep 4 2009 22:00 GMT: The database listener is up and data is flowing into the database and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newestindustry.org/2009/09/04/grabperf-database-failure/</link>
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		<title>Effective Web Performance: What to Manage</title>
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One of the traditional areas of frustration for Operations and Development teams in the Web world is that their performance, Web performance, is measured from the outside-in.
The resistance of this camp is strong, and they will appear without warning, even from amongst the most enlightened of companies.
How can they be recognized?
You will hear their battle-cry, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newestindustry.org/2009/08/28/effective-web-performance-what-to-manage/</link>
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		<title>T-Mobile Dash 3G: Negative Final Impressions</title>
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When it comes to the T-Mobile Dash 3G, I have some simple advice.
Don&#8217;t.
The longer I have this phone, the more of a clunker it becomes. My list of complaints include:

In the last 24 hours, the battery has started to drain for no apparent reason &#8211; and yes, WiFi, Bluetooth, and background apps are all off. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newestindustry.org/2009/08/27/t-mobile-dash-3g-negative-final-impressions/</link>
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