Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: Browsers| Technology| The Web
3 Sep 2008Recently there was an outage at a hit-tracking vendor I was using to track the hits on my externally hosted blog, leaving me with a gap in my visitor data several hours long. While this was an inconvenience for me, I realized that this could be mission critical failure to an online business reliant on [...]
One of the performance hits that the GrabPERF system has is the dynamic generation of the main page. The nature of the SQL calls and the underlying PHP makes it scale exponentially past a certain number of measurements.
Last night, Kevin Burton made a grand suggestion: generate a static page on a regular schedule.
Duh!
Today, I wrote [...]
Rick Segal has a great post this morning about the unique nature of the Canada-US border. [here]
Rick hits it on the head: US Customs and Immigration Agents are some of the most unpleasant people I have ever had the pleasure of dealing with.
When Samantha goes home with the boys next month, what does she fear [...]
In: Gutter Helmet
19 Oct 2005The update on my Gutter Helmet posts (1 and 2) is that there is no update.
We received a phone call from a local Gutter Helmet rep about 2 weeks ago. He spoke to Samantha who, outlined some of our concerns and issues. I then called and left him a message last week, re-iterating these same [...]
In: smp
24 Sep 2005Seems that us Introverts are busting out everywhere.
Jonathan Rauch hits for six with this article.
I work at a company run by Extroverts, who, without a second thought, promote the Extroverts and marginalize the Introverts.
The thing is that in my company, outside of sales, the company is dominated by Introverts. In fact, because it is a [...]
In: smp
12 Sep 2005Zane hits for six with this commentary.
Why? Why does this nation do these things? What makes people simply shrug their shoulders and say, “oh well; thankfully it’s not me”.
Next time, it will be you. Or someone you know. And what then?
In: smp
31 Aug 2005Why does this exchange bother me?
[ISP NAME DELETED]:
I have been seeing a VERY large number of visits from two hosts in
your IP block since August 26, 2005.
A list of all of the hits since Aug 26 is attached.
If you do not stop this/these hosts, I will be forced to drop all traffic from the [/24 [...]
Blog Statistics Analysis: Page Views by Day of Week, or When to Post
In: Blogging| Commentary
16 Sep 2008Since I started self-hosting this blog again on August 6 2008, I have been trying to find more ways to pull traffic toward the content that I put up. Like all bloggers, I feel that I have important things to say (at least in the area of Web performance), and ideas that should be read [...]