Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: smp
30 Jan 2005I submitted a presentation proposal for OSCON 2005 just now. The abstract is below.
The Open Source community has driven the online world for the last decade. PHP, PERL, Apache, Java, and MySQL are all major components of large online enterprises.
However, putting an application online and ensuring that it satisfies the performance, availability and reliability demands [...]
In: smp
28 Dec 2004Report: Craigslist costing newspapers millions
Well, this is no surpise. It’s fast, cheap and easy-to-use. THe classified industry has changed so substantially as a result of the online world that traditional classifieds almost seem quaint…at least to me.
Browsers: The Window and The Firehose
In: Commentary| Technology
3 Sep 2008Three years ago, in a post on this blog, I stated that I thought that the browser was becoming less important as more data moved into streams of data through RSS and aggregated feeds, as well as a raft of other consumer-oriented Web services.
This position was based on the assumption that the endpoint, in the [...]