Archive for April, 2008
Twitter: A Success Failure?
When FireFox 1.0 was released, the sites hosting this eagerly awaited software effectively were overwhelmed by the number of users attempting to download it.
A colleague of mine referred to it as a Success Failure. What is that? It simply means that you have been so successful at getting the word out and getting people excited [...]
Posted: April 21st, 2008 under Blogging, Life, Web Performance.
Tags: failure to communicate, performance, success failure, twitter
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Return of the Blog Peasant: Hibernation and renewal
Those who saw me at the edge of the A-list (B-list? are those terms valid anymore? I am so out of touch) circle during the first wave of the blog explosion saw me flag and then fall. But where did I go? What did I do?
I left town, essentially. Mentally. I had to go down [...]
Posted: April 19th, 2008 under Bipolar, Life, RANTING.
Tags: hibernation, return of the blog peasant, twitter
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IE 8 is coming…are you ready?
So, Microsoft is releasing Internet Explorer 8 later this year, and a Beta is available now.
The question is, are you ready for it?
Internally, the tech savvy folks (myself included) have been tossing around the football of how to tackle it. The leap from 2 to 6 connections per host, on top of the basic rendering [...]
Posted: April 18th, 2008 under Web Performance.
Tags: IE8, Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer 8, MSIE8, performance, sockets, TCP
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Easy to use, spam-proof, contact form
Ok folks, I am tired of people spamming my captcha contact form. I need a better solution. Does anyone have an excellent, proven, and simple to deploy method for fooling the bots on a contact form?
Posted: April 17th, 2008 under RANTING, Technology.
Tags: CAPTCHA, contact form, spam
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Hulk break Web site! Yargh!
On type of my usual performance consulting, I have recently taken on the role of Web site breaker/stress tester at work. Our updated external load-testing tool is coming out soon, but we have some clients who need some of its functions now.
So, what does this mean? Well, I have learned a lot about how to [...]
Posted: April 17th, 2008 under Web Performance, Work.
Tags: load test, Web Performance, web testing
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The fading of blogging
Through 2007, the number of posts I made per day/week/month decreased steadily. I know post new items 2-3 items a month, or less. After 2 years of steady entries, I just didn’t have anything to add to the conversation.
Having been an A-list groupie for this entire period, I lost touch with the self-perpetuating scene. A [...]
Posted: April 13th, 2008 under Life, RANTING.
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Goodbye Grandma
On Friday morning, my brother called to tell me that Grandma Isa had passed away overnight.
Isa was my father’s mother, and was one of the most amazing people in my life. In her life, she had survived poverty that few of us can imagine, seen 5 children die in infancy while raising 5 of the [...]