Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
I have finally given up on Trillian releasing a new version anytime before the next ice age, and switched to the the messenger client formerly known as GAIM, now known as Pidgin.
Solid, functional, and showing signs that it is in active development. Unlike Trillian, which is slowly becoming the Duke Nukem Forever of messenger clients.
I’m [...]
Trillian, the multi-system messenger program I use, apparently has this really cool new product in development. However, they have taken the Joost approach to releasing things: make it exclusive.
This is making me angry, and I am considering switching back to GAIM, even though I find GAIM clunky and wheezy in it’s latest version.
Trillian developers: open [...]
In: RANTING| Software| Technology| Work
10 Mar 2007So, it was time to re-build my laptop — 4 months of cruft gets in the way and really slows things down. And since the company I work for has an Microsoft Enterprise License that includes Vista, I took the plunge.
So far, it’s ok. Nothing that really rocks my world. And one serious hindrance: It [...]
In: Photos
3 Feb 2007I’m the first to tell you that I know nothing about using a tool as powerful as The Gimp. I get Layers, but after that, there is a realm of madness that I have not yet reached.
I have learned a cool trick tonight. It’s building on a trick I learned a couple of weeks ago. [...]
In: Life
10 Oct 2006Ok Web performance gurus, I have been out-cooled by someone I work with. Ryan Breen, VP of Technology at Gomez and overall uber-geek, has managed to register AJAX Performance and has a blog up there that talks all about the freaky twisted goodness of making your AJAX behave.
Ryan knows way more about making apps behave; [...]
In: GrabPERF
27 Jul 2006Over the last 12 months, GrabPERF has added a lot of measurements, especially from folks who thought that the system was cool, looked at the data a few times, and never returned.
So, I have looked at the logs for the last few weeks, and determined that there are definitely a large number measurements that no [...]
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: Life
13 Mar 2006I got to hold a 3-day old lamb, and watch as Samantha gave this little creature it’s first bath.
How cool is that?
I may spend my day shlepping bits and electrons, but there is something very special about watching your friend’s 11 year-old daughter lead a little ball of wool on its first free walk in [...]
In: Uncategorized
7 Mar 2006I had an interesting exchange with David Parmet earlier today that involved self-promotion and promotion of causes that mean something to us personally.
Well, isn’t that the geek way? Lay low, do the “cool” things, and let the marketing folks make the buzz? I am no good at going out there and saying “LOOK AT ME!”; [...]
Web Performance: Your Teenage Web site
In: Commentary| The Web| Web Performance| WebPerformance.Org| Work
10 Sep 2008It’s critical to your business. It affects revenue. It’s how people who can’t come to you perceive you.
It’s your Web site.
Its complex. Abstract. Lots of conflicting ideas and forces are involved. Everyone says they now the best thing for it. Finger-pointing. Door slamming. Screaming.
Am I describing your Web site and the team that supports it? [...]