Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: Life
30 Nov 2006Just went online and thought I would share the Yahoo TV comments so far.
Rushi’s Ramblings
Jason Blogs
Paul Kedrosky
Dave Winer
RowdyData
Oh, and my comments.
Yahoo, please give us an opt-out on this monstrosity. Or better yet, do a complete rollback.
Technorati Tags: Yahoo, Yahoo+TV, Bad+Design, Web+2.0, Bad+upgrade
I wrote this in December 2004.
A lot of things have changed since then. And a lot has remained immobile.
I don’t know whether to add creative burnout to the raging fire I now know is Bipolar, or to see it as a part of a more general work-related malaise.
I need to talk to a few more people [...]
In: Life
6 Oct 2006So, after 6 years of controlling and managing my own Web server, I have handed responsibility over to 1 & 1. I wish I could say that there was a really good reason why I’ve done this, but frankly, it’s because I don’t need a lot of oooommmmph for my personal domains (they run happily [...]
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: Blogging
18 Aug 2006I was considering the amazing popularity of Wordpress (the hosted service as well ad the application), now the agreed upon champ in the blogging world. I was considering this in light of the fact that when I started blogging in the dark ages of 2004, MoveableType and TypePad were the undisputed champs.
When did the shift [...]
In: Blogging
30 Jul 2006In the last three days I have gone from Wordpress 2.0.2 to 2.0.3, then from 2.0.3 to 2.0.4. All went seamlessly, and the blog working as expected.
Upgrades in both cases took less than 5 minutes.
I love Wordpress. I now know why Moveable Type is tanking so hard.
Technorati Tags: Wordpress, upgrades, 2.0.4
Just upgraded to Wordpress 2.02. Let me know if any unusual weirdness ensues.
Technorati Tags: Wordpress.upgrade
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
13 Mar 2006I arrived this morning and fired up the GrabPERF main page to check out the Top/Bottom Twenty.
This is what greeted me.
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In the Good News category, every measurement in the Top Twenty had 100% availability.
In the Bad News category, some big names were showing up in the Bottom Twenty with performance and success rate numbers [...]
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
7 Mar 2006Matt threw a bunch of hardware at Ping-O-Matic this morning.
I think this is an improvement.
UPDATE: Anecdotally, I know that Ping-O-Matic is faster, because Performancing is done so much faster now.
Technorati Tags: Ping-O-Matic, Pingomatic, GrabPERF, Web Performance
In: GrabPERF
28 Feb 2006Best of the Web Blog Search has been added to GrabPERF. Thanks to Scoble for the heads up.
Technorati Tags: BOTW, Best of the Web, blog search, GrabPERF