The folks at Netcraft have released an anti-phishing toolbar. So far it is only for MSIE; hopefully they will release a Firefox extension soon.
Author: spierzchala
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Free Tools from Port80 Software
Got an e-mail from the team at Port80 Software in San Diego. They have a compression and caching solution for IIS, which although not my development platform of choice, is heavily used in the Fortune 1000, mainly due to the requirement from these firms to contract with a vendor with enterprise support programs.
The link below takes you to their variety of tools that check the cacheability and compressibility (this a word?) of your pages.
They also have a blog — [200 OK]. Drop by and check them out — there is a very interesting discussion on TIME_WAIT states going on, an oft-forgotten little tweak that is available for high-performance Web servers.
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Get this book…if you can
If you want erudite and reasoned analysis of the roots of the current state if US foreign policy, Gwynne Dyer’s Future: Tense would be the book for you. [Funny, Amazon doesn’t seem to carry it.]
It plots the course and rationale for the neo-conservative revolution and its primary objectives: a Pax Americana enforced by special forces and weapons of high technology, and the diminishment (or dissolution) of the UN.
The book makes a strong case that this undertaking will lead to a multi-polar world, with regional blocs of economic-military alliance banded together to mutually defend each other. He draws comparisons to the world prior to the First World War and the spheres of influence in Goerge Orwell’s 1984.
Yummy good read.
May 22: Hmmm, the ideas in the book are pretty much spot on. Not bad for 18 years ago. All he missed was the climate crisis and the water wars.
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Snow
Once it’s shovelled, it is quite beautiful out there.
About 6 inches — ok maybe 4 inches with larger wind-accumulation in our weird yard. Kids had a blast in the snow and the Damnation Hound goes “crackerdog” in snow.
We are all wiped and ZenWife is baking for the New Year’s Day house party we are having. We will have food for millions by the end!
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Another Blogger Refugee
Allan Jenkins is moving Desirable Roasted Coffee to Typepad.
Another Blogger user fleeing to another service.
Hmmmmm….
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Browser Percentage Art
I thought everyone would get a kick out of my mirror image browser percentage chart.
What do you see in the picture?
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Wasted Life — Part Deux
As I previously asked, ever get the feeling you have wasted your life?
This feeling was renewed when I actually sat down and read Joi Ito’s bio. I am obviously slated to be one of the proles.
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Madness is over
Two kids.
One dog.
A treeful of presents.
45 minutes.
Now to deal with madness that resulted.
From our house to yours, Merry Giftmas.
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New player?
Just discovered a new player in the Web performance field: SciVisum.
Anyone know anything about them?
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Web compression benefit survey — looking for volunteers
As a sidelight to my Web performance job, I spent a lot of time investigating Web compression techniques, tools and devices a while back (I have a library of items I have collected
My studies were purely technical, i.e. what was the bandwidth saving in implementing this technology v. remaining uncompressed. Now I want to work with some companies who have implemented a compression solution recently and get a sense of what the bottom-line impact was.
Some questions I am trying to answer.
- Does compression really save companies money?
- Is the hardware/software implementation cost have an acceptable ROI?
- Have you implemented a compression solution, then retired it? Why?
Not earth-shattering questions, but they will help me better understand the end-to-end business implications of deploying and integrating a compression solution.
If you woul dlike to partcipate, please drop me a line here.