Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: GrabPERF
11 Jul 2005HTTP Compression is a well-acknowledged way to improve Web performance and decrease bandwidth usage by compressing text content before transmitting it to the client. This has become an increasingly interesting topic for Web 2.0 sites starting to experience their first growth pains.
COMPANY
COMPRESSION
Technorati
NO
Flickr
NO
Wikipedia
YES
Blogger
YES
Feedster
NO
Bloglines
YES
Gizmodo
YES
TypePad
YES
Weblogs INC
NO
Scripting News
NO
Memeorandum
NO
The sample above is far from representative. However, I would have thought [...]
In: smp
6 Jul 2005This morning, my server was the victim of a sustained DDoS lasting approximately 45 minutes. The entire flow of traffic came from the usual group of trackback and comment spam morons.
Now, the good news: b2evolution came through the event with flying colours. The antispam feature built into the product prevented ANY attempts by these morons [...]
In: RANTING
5 Jul 2005I think that I am protected from the PHP XML-RPC vulnerability discovered by Secunia. However, the team at b2evolution have made only a cursory attempt to explain what is happening.
I have updated the xmlrpc.php file on my serv to the latest CVS version and also updated the PHP XML-RPC library in PEAR.
Looking forward to a [...]
Happy Proclamation of the Bourgeois Revolutionary Manifesto Day
Go blow something up!
In: smp
24 Jun 2005I should explain that. I am no longer inserting the blog traffic into my Web server log database. The amount of crap was getting ridiculous, and taking up too much space.
By doing this, I reduced about 50 days of logs from 450,000 rows to 81,000 rows, a better representation of the traffic that my other [...]
In: RANTING
2 Jun 2005Ok, started to notice a dramtic and sudden increase in traffic to my site yesterday. Turns out that all of these folks were headed to the same place at this host:
/index.php?disp=stats
So, when I checked this out, they were all indicating referrals from the usual illicit medication and adult sites.
<sigh> More trackback and comment spam.
Now, I [...]
In: smp
23 May 2005Dr. Blaise Cronin (the name sounds like the nom de plume of an agent provocateur), author of a justly ridiculed and narrow-minded critique of blogging, has re-appeared just in time for the Summer Solstice. [here and here]
This man is an island. And he has lost the perspective that come from spending too much time in [...]
In: smp
22 May 2005Tim Porter hits on why MT may not be the best blog platform for those who prefer to spend more time blogging than tweaking a complex environment. [here]
I use b2evolution, and it just works. I only play with it to tweak the design. The rest of it is handled internally.
What platform do my readers prefer? [...]
In: smp
19 May 2005Over the last few days, there has been the start of Bzzzzz around the sneak peeks people are getting into the new Office 12 for Windows.
I haven’t read them. I don’t care. Guess I am a dinosaur.
On my work laptop, I am very happy with Office 11 (2003). My wife is very happy with Office [...]
In: smp
21 Apr 2005Cliff Atkinson points out how the PowerPoint Nazis rule corporate life. [here]
Cliff’s message in Beyond Bullets is simple: escape the drudgery of a point-by-point breakdown your ideas. Tell a story. May it evocative, descriptive, invigorating, or even scary. If the audience hears a story, it is far more likely that they will remember what you [...]