Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: Life
9 Mar 2006Some of you may know of this frightening shot of Doc Searls mouth.
Well, move over Doc! I just learned at the dentist this morning that my bridge has to come out, as the foundation teeth that hold it in place (it’s a permanent plate) are…well, failing is the polite way to say it.
I have had [...]
In: smp
17 May 2005I noticed that a new version (4.1.12) of MySQL was up on their site last night. I grabbed the RPMs (Yes, I am a binary-loving weenie, not a hardcore source jockey) and installed them.
For those of you who install MySQL from RPMs know that it takes 4 packages to get all of the components up [...]
In: smp
30 Jan 2005I submitted a presentation proposal for OSCON 2005 just now. The abstract is below.
The Open Source community has driven the online world for the last decade. PHP, PERL, Apache, Java, and MySQL are all major components of large online enterprises.
However, putting an application online and ensuring that it satisfies the performance, availability and reliability demands [...]
In: RANTING
13 Jan 2005Despite the doom-and-gloom title to this post, I fully sympatize with what the FBI is trying to accomplish, and the very public pain that they will feel as a result of the failure of Virtual Case File 1.0.
What I find interesting is that the biggest technology company no one has ever heard of, SAIC, failed [...]
Web Performance, Part IX: Curse of the Single Metric
In: Commentary| The Web| Web Performance| Web performance concepts| WebPerformance.Org| Work
5 Sep 2008While this post is aimed at Web performance, the curse of the single metric affects our everyday lives in ways that we have become oblivious to.
When you listen to a business report, the stock market indices are an aggregated metric used to represent the performance of a set group of stocks.
When you read about economic indicators, [...]