Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: Browsers| Software| Technology| The Web| Web Performance| Work
7 Sep 2008Since the release of Google Chrome on September 2, I have been using it as my day-to-day browser. Spending up to 80% of my computer time in a browser means that this was decision which affected a huge portion of my online experience.
I can say that I put Chrome through its paces, on a wide-variety [...]
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 [...]
Yes, I know. For the fourth time in a week, this is a post with a link to my resume.
But last night, while I was writing an e-mail to someone about the long-term future of GrabPERF, I wrote something that I had to read twice when it came out.
GrabPERF is my resume.
How can a simple [...]
In: RANTING
27 May 2005This week, I had a conversation that included a discussion of whether Microsoft Office applications should be webified.
I think that this is the only way that MSFT is going to be able to get people to support a new version of their product. A web application running on an IIS server (you think they would [...]
In: RANTING
2 Apr 2005This is the latest and greatest in social networking/blogging/picture trading/auction/online marketplace/p2p/moblogging/brand awareness Web apps… [here]
…FREAKIN’ NOT!
Thanks for finding this Joi!
In: RANTING
17 Mar 2005As the Web moves toward the delivery of services, I have been ruminating on the continuing importance of browsers.
Scoble writes:
Oh, well, back to my RSS news aggregator. That’s where I spend 90% of my Internet time now anyway. Are you still using a Web browser? Good. I’ve been telling audiences that those of you still [...]
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 [...]