Category Archives: web development

Disaggregate

We have done so well with RSS and other aggregators (think FriendFeed) in making it easy to gather up the content we love – making consumption easy and on our terms (and within the software we choose). But I keep … Continue reading

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Forcing Gzip Compression

I wasn’t able to attend Velocity this year but have been consuming what I can find online and this article from a few days ago from Steve Souders talks about a great approach to handling clients (or more likely proxies … Continue reading

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Google on site performance

Nice article and video on a few easy things to do to improve the front end performance.  This is something I am enthusiastic about and enjoy squeezing out savings (time rendering, bandwidth, etc.) from a site without impacting its look … Continue reading

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on Doing It Wrong

From Tim Bray’s piece on enterprise systems: What I’m writing here is the single most important take-away from my Sun years, and it fits in a sentence: The community of developers whose work you see on the Web, who probably … Continue reading

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A great data visualization

So I may be a bit biased since I was there for most of these events, but I found this image, created by feltron, to be very cool. It mentions in the post that CNN asked him to create a … Continue reading

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Watching a group grow

So a few months ago I was chatting with someone I worked with years ago (nearly decades at this point) at The Sport Shoe and he joked about starting a group on Facebook.  I thought about it for a second … Continue reading

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