Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
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: Life
17 May 2006I am at Heathrow, and my 20:10 BST flight has become a 22:55 BST flight, meaning I will get into Hamburg at around 01:00 CEST tomorrow.
Gives me some time to write my final impressions of London.
London is a very busy world city. For a small town boy, I think I did remarkably well in it. [...]
In: Life| Software| Technology
28 Apr 2006As part of the work I am doing for a client, I needed to install the Check Point VPN software. So far so good.
Until I want to try and connect to my company’s VPN, which uses Netscreen. It didn’t work.
Seems that the Check Point software does something that I both agree with and find frustrating [...]
In: Life| RANTING| Technology
27 Apr 2006As many of you know, I inherited an old, very well-used T-Mobile Treo 600 a couple of weeks ago. Well, I have become acutely aware of people who have them, much like suddenly noticing pregnant women when your wife is pregnant.
Today, I am on-site at a large client in the Philadelphia area, and the office [...]
In: Life
21 Mar 2006For those of you who live or have lived in San Mateo, CA, the choice of taqueria is often a heated and divided debate. The conflict arises between proponents of Pancho Villa and La Cumbre.
I fall in the Pancho Villa camp and had my first steak and shrimp burrito in nearly 2 years. It was [...]
In: Life
15 Mar 2006Looks like I will be in the Bay Area next week (Mar 20-23). I am giving a full day training on Thursday, and meeting with customers between San Francisco and San Jose before then.
It will be good to get back to the old stomping grounds for a few days.
Most likely I will be arriving Monday, [...]
Kathy Sierra once again reminds us that only the truly intelligent employers realize that the Work/Life balance is more important than ANYTHING else. [here]
And her reason for this: clients who abuse startups and small companies who then abuse their employees to work miracles.
The takeaway:
And as the tech employment market starts to tick up ever so [...]
Wow. It’s not often you read something like this.
Oh yeah, it’s the blogosphere.
Take away quote:
The question then is: if you ran out of space and were having problems, why did you continue to take on new customers during this period? Surely a responsible business with serious capacity issues would have closed their doors to new [...]
In: Blogging| Web Performance
27 Oct 2005Rojo has started showing unusual performance values over the last 24 hours.
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Most of the gain has been in First Byte times — the time between the Client issuing the GET, and the Server’s response arriving back at the Client.
Since I use Rojo, this is a concern for me.
Technorati: Rojo, aggregator
IceRocket: Rojo, aggregator
In: Blogging| GrabPERF| Web Performance
24 Oct 2005Normally when I discuss the performance of a page I am measuring using GrabPERF, it’s either good news (“you just got 5 times faster!”) or bad news (“your page hasn’t loaded in 6 months; you still there?”).
Today, something a little different: a question. What’s the question?
Why is the performance of a Technorati Blog (aka Traditional) [...]