Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: Browsers| Technology| The Web| Web Performance| Work
4 Sep 2008The last two days of using Chrome have had me thinking about the purpose of the Web browser in today’s world. I’ve talked about how Chrome and Firefox have changed how we see browsers, treating them as interactive windows into our daily life, rather than the uncontrolled end of an information firehose.
These applications, that on [...]
In: Canada| Immigration| Life| RANTING
14 Jul 2007It seems that more than the usual immigration backlog reduction process has been at work in the USCIS. There are two likely scenarios that appear to be running around immigration circles these days, regarding the Green Card slot tease that has turned into such a furore.
The first is that the Department of State, which issues [...]
In: Canada| Immigration| Life| RANTING
13 Jul 2007As many readers know, I am going through the process — if you call filing a bunch of paperwork and not hearing anything for 2 years a process — of obtaining Permanent Residency in the United States, often referred to as the Green Card.
This morning, on NPR, there was a story about a foul-up in [...]
Here in North America, we have a little over a month left in our free Skype-2-North America phone service. (here)
I’m addicted. I will pay whatever they want me to so I can keep calling US phone numbers from one application.
And I can’t figure out why more people in the US and Canada still don’t use [...]
Port80 Software is reporting that in their survey of Fortune 1000 Web sites, IIS 6.0 has overtaken Apache as the Web server platform of choice. [here]
My two-cents: I respect the Port80 Software team greatly and love their maniacal devotion to ensuring that IIS users actually make use of the HTTP compression and caching that can [...]
In: Blogging
18 Aug 2006I was considering the amazing popularity of Wordpress (the hosted service as well ad the application), now the agreed upon champ in the blogging world. I was considering this in light of the fact that when I started blogging in the dark ages of 2004, MoveableType and TypePad were the undisputed champs.
When did the shift [...]
In: Web Performance
21 Jul 2006Dear Flickr:
I have been wondering for sometime why downloads from your site seemed a little sluggish at times.
At first I blamed your unprecedented growth and success. For a little Vancouver startup (I am a BC boy myself), your entrance onto the stage of social networking applications has been phenomenal. The move from zero to infinity [...]
In: RANTING
21 Apr 2006Usually I classify this sort of mail as complete nonsense, and delet it. But this one was such a classic, I had to post it.
The letter is from the new CEO of the joint Borland/Segue. He is announcing that he thinks that Segue and Borland customers will be able to find cool ways to use [...]
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
14 Mar 2006This afternoon, StatCounter showed a marked increase in performance.
Normally I wouldn’t highlight an issue that only lasted an hour, but this appears to have been a very unusual issue that saw the page size decrease to nearly nothing, and performance shoot up to around 45 seconds. This combination usually indicates a back-end application timeout which [...]
Yes, I know. For the fourth time in a week, this is a post with a link to my resume.
But last night, while I was writing an e-mail to someone about the long-term future of GrabPERF, I wrote something that I had to read twice when it came out.
GrabPERF is my resume.
How can a simple [...]