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: GrabPERF| Web Performance
12 May 2006If you try to access GrabPERF via http://www.grabperf.com/ or http://www.grabperf.net/, you will have noticed that you can’t reach the Web server.
The domains are being transferred to a new registrar, and the authoritative servers have not yet been set up. Just use http://www.grabperf.org/ for the next few days.
Sorry.
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In: Life| Software| Technology
29 Apr 2006Earlier today, I wrote about my issues with a conflict between Check Point and Netscreen VPN software. Well, I figured out how to make them work together.
I had the answer in my hands the whole time. Check Point software binds to the network interfaces on your machine. Once you remove this binding, Check Point refuses [...]
In: Uncategorized
25 Apr 2006On Slashdot today, they note that C|Net has an article on the recent issues that the World of Warcraft site has been experiencing.
WoW Web Site Success Rate — Last 21 Days
Old news for readers here.
Technorati Tags: GrabPERF, World of Warcraft, WoW, Web performance
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: Blogging| RANTING| Software| Technology| Web Performance
15 Nov 2005Looks like Jeremy Wright and Darren Rowse have their own beefs with Google Blahnalytics (Term Courtesy of Jeremy Wright).
Gee Google, these two guys are opinion-shapers. I think maybe you should come out and say that there are issues.
Or say something.
Anything?
Or are your Overlords at the NSA still pawing over the data and won’t let you [...]
In: Blogging| GrabPERF| Web Performance
30 Oct 2005Just noticed this.
CLICK IMAGE
Anyone have troubles getting PubSub sites today?
Technorati: PubSub
IceRocket: PubSub
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 [...]
The gang at the Never Work Alone blog have a fantastic post describing some of the solutions to the Introverted IT / Extroverted Sales-Marketing integration issue.[here]
The best points:
When hiring, place a premium on being able to explain technical issues to users and determine whether they’ve mastered the material. Expect this to cost more.
Offer raises for [...]
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 [...]