Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
If you use GrabPERF on a regular basis, the somewhat flaky navigation method has become second nature to you. In fact, to circumvent some of the idiosyncrasies, you have probably bookmarked your favourite pages.
Yesterday, I broke your links.
When I redesigned GrabPERF in February 2006, I had just discover the require function in PHP, and decided [...]
In: smp
23 Sep 2005Lifehack.org lists the top ten reasons to being an Introvert. As an INTJ, I can relate to these.
10) Work Well With Others, Especially In One-to-One Relationships
9) Maintain Long-Term Friendships Flexible
7) Independent
6) Strong Ability To Concentrate
5) Self-Reflective
4) Responsible
3) Creative, Out-of-the-Box thinking
2) Analytical Skills That Integrate Complexity
1) Studious and Smart
Looks like I need to buy The [...]
In: GrabPERF
11 Jul 2005Ok, one of the tests that the GrabPERF System is running is doing a simple search on the Technorati site.
Ouch.
Now, as I mentioned before, Technorati has some interesting things going on in their www servers. For the Web geeks out there, here is what their headers look like.
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 16:15:47 [...]
In: smp
15 Jun 2005Rick Segal and I have different, if not complementary perspectives on the United States. He is a US citizen living in Canada; I am a Canadian living in the US. I have met Rick in person, and he is an intelligent and insightful person to speak with.
Last night, he posted his reaction to the US [...]
In: smp
14 May 2005Went in to urgent care today — I have a sinus infection.
But I saw a new doctor, and I liked her a lot. And I figured out why.
She is a doctor. She doesn’t ACT like a doctor. My regular doctor always wears a white coat and maintains a cold, impersonal approach. The doctor I saw [...]
In: RANTING
4 May 2005The Dean of the School of Library and Information Sciences at Indiana University, Blaise Cronin, maintains an open mind about blogging. [here]
One wonders for whom these hapless souls blog. Why do they choose to expose their unremarkable opinions, sententious drivel and unedifying private lives to the potential gaze of total strangers? What prompts this particular [...]
In: RANTING
1 May 2005Kathy Sierra writes on the geography of context. The main takeaway: North Americans remove objects from their context; Asians always consider the whole picture.
A thought-provoking reminder of our differences as a species. I am defiitely guilty of removing objects from their context and looking at them in isolation. However, working with computer systems on a [...]
In: smp
30 Apr 2005Web page compression is not a new technology, but it has just recently gained higher recognition in the minds of IT administrators and managers because of the rapid ROI it generates. Compression extensions exist for most of the major Web server platforms, but in this article I will focus on the Apache and mod_gzip solution.
The [...]
In: smp
6 Apr 2005Back in November, I mentioned that I was working on the idea of new ways to benchmark the success of online businesses in today’s more mature operational environment. I am still working on the base ideas, but a colleague of mine has helped me coalesce some ideas, and they are now forming the foundation of [...]
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 [...]