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Strategic Reading: Managing FriendFeed My Way
12 Aug 2008For FriendFeed has become my replacement for Google Reader, which I only visit occasionally now to see if there are blogs I need to add to my feed.
But, if you are going to replace a reader with FriendFeed, how do you manage the flow of content. While tools will likely improve over time, I have [...]
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- Tags: friendfeed, google reader, optimize, strategy, summize, tinyurl, twitter, twitter search
GrabPERF: Substantial Navigation Changes
4 Aug 2007If 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 [...]
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- Tags: book, content, design, GrabPERF, GrabPERF.org, HTTP, IE, IM, improvement, ISP, it, maintain, maintenance, Om, optimize, Pages, performance, PHP, pr, run, Technorati, update, web, Web Performance
This paper is an extension of the work done for another article that highlighted the performance benefits of retrieving uncompressed and compressed objects directly from the origin server. I wanted to add a proxy server into the stream and determine if proxy servers helped improve the performance of object downloads, and by how much.
Using the [...]
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- Tags: ads, apache, app, ARIN, bandwidth, cache-control, Cacheability, caching, client, compress, compression, control, corporate, data, EAD, extension, gzip, HTML, HTTP, IE, IM, improvement, IP, it, LAN, Linux, local proxy server, mod_gzip, Om, One, optimize, origin server, Pages, performance, performance improvement, pr, proxy, proxy server, run, server, the Origin, The origin server, traffic, web, web page download times, wordpress
GrabPERF: Comparing Technorati Blog and Tag Search
In: Blogging| GrabPERF| Web Performance
24 Oct 2005Normally when I discuss the performance of a page I am measuring using GrabPERF, it’s either good news (”you just got 5 times faster!”) or bad news (”your page hasn’t loaded in 6 months; you still there?”).
Today, something a little different: a question. What’s the question?
Why is the performance of a Technorati Blog (aka Traditional) [...]
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- Tags: app, ARIN, blog, Challenges, client, data, GrabPERF, GrabPERF.org, HTTP, IE, IM, it, measurement, media, normal, Om, optimize, performance, posts, pr, search, seo, server, Technorati
Database Abuse: Fun you can have without the optimizer
In: smp
19 Sep 2005You know it’s going to be a good day when the DBA comes up to you and says:
“You know those really huge and stupid queries that we always yell at you about? Well, we have some database hardware in place and we thought of you as someone who could stress the system.”
Fast hardware. Fast Drives. [...]
GrabPERF: Whole bunch of bug/performance fixes, part 1
In: smp
14 Sep 2005Over the last two days I have been trying to optimize the performance of the Index Charts/Graphs. I think I have found the fix, and you should see results for these charts in the sub 1-second range.
To explain how this works, I have to open up the GrabPERF data model and let you folks peer [...]
GrabPERF: Bob Wyman of PubSub drops in
In: smp
30 Aug 2005Just noticed that Bob Wyman of PubSub dropped in to look at the GrabPERF data we are collecting. [here]
Although Bob’s pride is evident, I do caution that being the top of a performance index is simply one measure of success. There is the whole discussion of relevancy of results, but that is beyond the scope [...]
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- Tags: ARIN, benchmarking, blog, Consistency, data, design, GrabPERF, GrabPERF.org, HTML, HTTP, IE, IM, it, measurement, Om, One, optimize, performance, performance measurement, pr, Technorati, web, Web Performance, Web performance measurement, Web+performance
Web Traffic on the increase as summer ends
In: smp
14 Aug 2005Ping-O-Matic. Weblogs.com.
Two of the sites that have seen surges in Web traffic recently.
My unsubstantiated theory is that as summer ends, Web traffic is seeing its usual surge, amplified by the new interest in blogs and Web 2.0 properties.
For the small companies who have effectively had the summer off, it’s time to re-adjust your capacity-planning estimates…upward.
Why? [...]
Better Living Through Coding
In: GrabPERF
29 Jul 2005Ok, I got through the neuro-chemical wall by doing some coding. It’s weird, but intense mental activity seems to give me enough of a boost for the meds to start working again.
I created two new graphs for GrabPERF. The performance of the Multi-Test Hourly chart is hideous, mainly because my 6 year-old writes better code [...]
Seth G Discovers Robertson Screws…
In: GTD
14 Jun 2005…and I have heard a rumour that David Allen is adding them to GTD, Merlin and Dave Winer are porting them to MacOSX, SOGrady is building them on Gentoo, and Scoble uses them on his tablet. Kathy Sierra is evangelizing how they make happier screwers (???) and Darren Rowse has pointed out how to optimize [...]
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