Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
David Cancel and I have had sort of a passing vague, same space and thought process, living in the same Metropolitan area kind of distant acquaintance for about the same year.
About 2-3 months ago, he wrote a pair of articles discussing the efforts he has undertaken in order to try and offload some of the [...]
In: Photos
3 Feb 2007I’m the first to tell you that I know nothing about using a tool as powerful as The Gimp. I get Layers, but after that, there is a realm of madness that I have not yet reached.
I have learned a cool trick tonight. It’s building on a trick I learned a couple of weeks ago. [...]
I try and avoid the “me-too” factor that has dominated the land of blogs for most of the time I have been involved in it. Simply aping one persons comments with a slight variation, or personal interpretation doesn’t add much to the initial thrill of finding the original germ of an idea.
Kathy Sierra, someone who [...]
In: Photos
25 Jan 2007I am starting to play with a variety of effects to manipulate some of the photographs I am taking with my new camera. I have created four modified versions of the original below. The modified pictures can be found here.
I would love to get comments from folks, either here, or on flickr, telling me which one they [...]
In: Life
30 Dec 2006I have set up a test to check the performance of the CoralCDN network against that of the origin server. You can view the comparative results here.
The tests used the base HTML document of this blog as the target.
The results so far indicate that there is a slight performance penalty when using CoralCDN in an ad [...]
Looks like Yahoo TV upgraded overnight.
Guess I will get my TV schedule information from other sources now.
DHTML/AJAX Schedule is slow and confusing.
Front page looks like a Flash designer got lucky — Look at all the dancing images!
Complex, complicated, and visually disturbing.
Oh, and no option to downgrade to the original, functional version.
All I want is the [...]
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 [...]
In: Notebook Lust
7 Aug 2006For history fiends, enthusiasts of lost treasures, and lovers of a good mystery, the discovery of the Archimedes Palimpsest has been one of those stories that must be followed.
The texts contained in the Palimpsest were lost to humanity for hundreds of years as a result of a common Medieval European tradition — the re-use of [...]
In: GrabPERF
29 Jul 2006At our garage sale today, I sold off the original GrabPERF Web server. Sad to see it go, but it was time.
I am still trying to sell the database server. But I might turn it into a file server with a couple of massive drives.
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In: GrabPERF| Technology
23 Jul 2006As everyone should know by now, GrabPERF has moved to some pretty swell co-lo digs provided by our friends at Technorati. This saved us a bunch of money, both in connectivity and in power.
Now, after nearly 6 months of inactivity, I have decided to sell the original GrabPERF servers. I have no more need for [...]