Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: Software| Technology| Web Performance| WebPerformance.Org
2 Sep 2008Google Chrome is out. And from first impressions, it is stinking fast. However, i do have some gripes.
Comes with link underlining enabled. I hate this. It’s the first think I disable in Firefox and any browser that supports disabling underlining
Where’s the “get your hands dirty under the hood” option list? I love the Firefox about:config list. [...]
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
21 Jul 2006After a few month hiatus, I am starting to code for GrabPERF again. I need to exercise my brain; as I am a hobbyist code mangler, I have to take on a project every now and then to keep my not-so-l33t skillz honed.
The change to the agent is one of efficiency. The current production agent [...]
In: RANTING
21 Apr 2006Usually I classify this sort of mail as complete nonsense, and delet it. But this one was such a classic, I had to post it.
The letter is from the new CEO of the joint Borland/Segue. He is announcing that he thinks that Segue and Borland customers will be able to find cool ways to use [...]
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
8 Mar 2006The Site Statistics | Web Analytics Index measurements have been running now for about 2.5 days, and I wanted to make some general comments on what I am seeing.
The methodolgy for testing is straightforward. I chose sites | services that allowed you to create a free (if limited) account to track your Web visitors, and [...]
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: Canada| Technology
7 Feb 2006The A380 has begun cold-weather testing in Iqaluit, Nunavut. [here]
Perfect weather for it…it’s sunny and -29C (-20F) there today.
And where is there? It’s here.
BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
Technorati Tags: A380, Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada
In: GrabPERF
26 Oct 2005For reasons that I have yet to discover, my outbound connection to the Internet appears to have been down between the times listed in the title.
As I have said before, my connection is less than “professional grade”, i.e. “don’t do this at home”.
If I find a cause, I will update.
I apologize for the incovenience.
UPDATE: Ouch.
Found [...]
In: Blogging
25 Oct 2005Ok Everyone, if you start seeing some odd behaviour from my sites (GrabPERF, Newest Industry, Pierzchala.com), it’s because I am doing some testing to see if the scripts, processes, and applications I have built on top of MySQL 4.1 can stand the upgrade.
I will not be upgrading the primary database system until all of this [...]
In: smp
15 Sep 2005This morning, I asked the ERTW.com measurement location to turn down, as we have completed testing the remote measurement code.
This will have some effect on results going forward, mostly positive. The ERTW.com location had an unusual DNS configuration which was affecting the overall measurement statistics.
I am still recruiting for measurement locations on the West Coast. [...]
In: smp
30 Aug 2005Until Weblogs.com can get their act together, I have suspended testing this site.
The site appears to have suffered some form of catastrophic issue starting August 7, 2005. [here]
I will check in occasionally to see how the site is doing.
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