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
6 Jan 2005In writing the last post, I was thinking about what factors go into making the Web performance of a site "excellent". What defines in the minds of the sites users/customers/visitors/critics/competitors that the performance of a Web site is excellent?
These are usually judged by the standard factors:
Usability
Responsiveness
Availability
Traffic
Reliability
Security
Clarity
But within the company itself, how is the performance of [...]
In: smp
5 Nov 2004I gave up. Blogger is too slow, flaky and clunky. I would rather pay the folks at TypePad/Six Apart.
Once again, I walk away from the free Google service into a for-fee service: Yahoo! Mail Plus and TypePad.
What does everyone else think?
ADDENDUM: Just checked in with my one other contact who uses Blogger, and she stated [...]