Posts Tagged ‘js

The intertubes of the Web are abuzz with talk of the new, open-source Google Chrome browser [two articles here and here]. I will not presume to wade into the debate of whether it is necessary, or what strategic business goals Google has set that rely on having its own browser. I will limit my comments [...]

Port80 Software is reporting that in their survey of Fortune 1000 Web sites, IIS 6.0 has overtaken Apache as the Web server platform of choice. [here]
My two-cents: I respect the Port80 Software team greatly and love their maniacal devotion to ensuring that IIS users actually make use of the HTTP compression and caching that can [...]

Google Checkout is out and the interesting thing is that many of the shops that are listed as signing up for it are hosted by GSI Commerce. No mention of a partnership deal, however.
Technorati Tags: Google Checkout, GSI Commerce

When I got to the London office, I started talking about how I had an addiction to sexy GSM phones, and showed off my collection. I then noted that the Motorola Razr seems to be a pretty hot commodity these days in London. My colleagues laughed, and one of them pulled his old Razr out [...]

Scott Johnson writes about how we all want to drop our mobile provider every once and a while. [here]
I have the same provider that Scott does: T-Mobile.
I am a complete T-Mobile lover. The coverage is great, and the use of GSM makes it so perfect for my travel needs, which includes the occasional trip to [...]

Read this article, and you will understand.
Help America.

A couple of comments on the new MSN Spaces site.

Your web server headers for the main page are basically not helpful, especially the Caching ones:
Cache-Control: no-cachePragma: no-cacheExpires: -1
"-1" is not a valid Expires entry — jest set it to the current date. "Pragma" is a client-side header ONLY.
No compression? CSS, JS, and HTML file compression [...]


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