Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
I have finally given up on Trillian releasing a new version anytime before the next ice age, and switched to the the messenger client formerly known as GAIM, now known as Pidgin.
Solid, functional, and showing signs that it is in active development. Unlike Trillian, which is slowly becoming the Duke Nukem Forever of messenger clients.
I’m [...]
In: RANTING| Software| Technology
10 Mar 2007March 10, 2007
When I defragment a disk, I like to know how much is left. It doesn’t have to be a graphical cue, but a percentage done can’t be hard to add.
Why doesn’t the right-click work in the message list in Outlook 2003?
Can you detect when a program is activated by an actual mouse event, [...]
I have been watching Sketches of Frank Gehry in a piecemeal fashion over the last two weeks (kids, in-laws, Christmas, etc.). Despite what you think of Gehry or his buildings, you have to admire the process that a true architect goes through to create a new building idea.
As Bob Geldof says in the film, quoting [...]
Apparently there’s quite the blizzard pounding Colorado. [here and here]
And your point is…?
Remember:
You live at 3,000 ft and above
Those big rocky and pointy things in your backyard? They might have some effect on the weather
It’s Winter…well, officially tomorrow
I gew up in the Rocky Mountain Trench. After November 1st, it’s not if, it’s when the snow [...]
Port80 Software is reporting that in their survey of Fortune 1000 Web sites, IIS 6.0 has overtaken Apache as the Web server platform of choice. [here]
My two-cents: I respect the Port80 Software team greatly and love their maniacal devotion to ensuring that IIS users actually make use of the HTTP compression and caching that can [...]
In: Life
3 Oct 2006Kathy Sierra.
Kathy Sierra and her home office in a Silver Streak trailer [here].
We are not worthy.
But the whole idea of a playful office is one that is very powerful to me. The “office” I commute to is a broad open space, with no walls. And as we are growing, the noise is becoming difficult to [...]
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
14 Mar 2006This afternoon, StatCounter showed a marked increase in performance.
Normally I wouldn’t highlight an issue that only lasted an hour, but this appears to have been a very unusual issue that saw the page size decrease to nearly nothing, and performance shoot up to around 45 seconds. This combination usually indicates a back-end application timeout which [...]
In: Blogging| RANTING| Software| Technology| Web Performance
15 Nov 2005Help Center: Supporting Google Analytics.
How long does it take to see report data after adding the tracking code?
After you first install the tracking code, it may take several hours for report data to appear in your account. Google Analytics generally updates your reports every hour, but data can take up to 6 hours to appear [...]
Kathy Sierra once again reminds us that only the truly intelligent employers realize that the Work/Life balance is more important than ANYTHING else. [here]
And her reason for this: clients who abuse startups and small companies who then abuse their employees to work miracles.
The takeaway:
And as the tech employment market starts to tick up ever so [...]
Browsers: The Window and The Firehose
In: Commentary| Technology
3 Sep 2008Three years ago, in a post on this blog, I stated that I thought that the browser was becoming less important as more data moved into streams of data through RSS and aggregated feeds, as well as a raft of other consumer-oriented Web services.
This position was based on the assumption that the endpoint, in the [...]