Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: Uncategorized
23 Aug 2006A few years ago, I wrote an article on how GZIP compression improved Web performance. Don Marti at the Linux Journal was a great editor, and eventually, the article ended up in the online version of the Magazine.
At the time, I used Ian Holsman’s webperf.org (now renamed ITScales) to capture the data. Now that I [...]
In: Notebook Lust
7 Aug 2006For those who capture the minutiae of their lives in a Moleskine or Rite in the Rain, I present the example to which we should all bow.
The Domesday Book is online.
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To quote the site:Â
“Domesday is our most famous and earliest surviving public record. It is a highly detailed survey and valuation of all the land [...]
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
15 May 2006Today, a new measurement location was added to the GrabPERF family. The team at Blog.com have graciously provided us with a server in Germany, and that is now online as Germany Blog.com #1.
We are still looking for measurement locations in the UK (or Ireland) and Asia.
Technorati Tags: GrabPERF, Blog.com, Germany, measurement, Web performance
In: GrabPERF
10 Apr 2006I have taken the SF Technorati Agent offline temporarily, as there appears to be a routing issue with the hosting provider. When this is resolves, I will bring the agent back online.
UPDATE: This event appears to be affecting routes to hosts on the Globix Network.
In: GrabPERF
31 Mar 2006I want to welcome a new measurement agent to the GrabPERF family: New York PubSub #1. This location came online yesterday, and has been delivering data consistently since about 21:00 EST (02:00 GMT) last night.
The world is a very small place. Turns out that my primary technical contact on the PubSub is someone who used [...]
I was reading online (Slashdot) that some videos from Iraq are censored in the US.
Yup, it’s true
So much for “Do no evil”.
Any wagers on where the first internment camp will be opened in the United States? Guantanomo Bay and Eastern European “democracies” are not included in this pool.
Technorati Tags: Google, Google Video, censor, censorship
UPDATE: Turns [...]
In: GrabPERF
19 Feb 2006If anyone wants to know why I am proud of GrabPERF, this graph should give you a clue.
Every hour, an aggregated value is produced for every test url. Counting up the Geometric Mean aggregations on a daily basis, the growth line is pretty amazing.
Doing a rough calculation, the system has grown from testing 40 urls [...]
In: GrabPERF
15 Oct 2005The Gomez Network Agent is offline due to a power failure at the hosting facility. I will bring this Agent back online on Monday morning.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
In: smp
7 Oct 2005Lifehacker points us all to Mayomi.
Ajax Rocks
MindJet better buy these guys quick or they will lose a lot of us who can’t afford MindManager
Technorati: mindmapping, ajax
IceRocket: mindmapping, ajax
The CTO of the blogosphere asks: What kind of software would you like developed?
Option 1: Build a product in 12 months that is simple and easy to use but only meets basic requirements. Upon completiion, this company will only fix bugs and provide minimal updates every six months; training through FAQs and some [...]