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July 2007

What’s Defcon?

July 31, 2007 · 5 comments

This weekend swarms of hackers, Linux gurus, network enthusiasts, exploit mavens, and just plain ol’ geeks will be congregating in Las Vegas for Defcon 15. Several of my friends will be going but unfortunately I have other plans that involve heading home until school starts up again. If you have been reading my blog for a while, you probably know all about conventions and conferences [click to continue…]

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How To: Bulletproof Server Backups with Amazon S3

July 29, 2007 · 84 comments

I normally try to avoid server/unix jargon on this blog but as you can tell I have become infatuated with Amazon’s affordable storage solution, S3, as of late. We all know that it is important to keep recent backups of anything you value at all, so why not automate the process? Until I started tinkering with S3, my server [click to continue…]

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AT&T Video Share – Live Video During a Call

July 27, 2007 · 7 comments

AT&T recently launched a service called Video Share that fully takes advantage of their 3G network. As the name implies, you can actually send live video from one Video Share enabled AT&T phone to another. This is the type of thing we’ve seen in Japan for years now and it’s finally migrated stateside. However, from watching the usage videos on the video share site, it is apparent that there [click to continue…]

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Review: Yahoo! YSlow for Firebug

July 26, 2007 · 18 comments

Up until now there had been only a few tools to help web developers assess the speed and optimization status of their websites. Primarily, there is the Net tool of the ever-popular Firebug add-on for Firefox. The Net tool can tell you what a website is loading, how long it takes, if it’s cached, headers and similar items. Yesterday, Yahoo! released their own add-on to Firebug called YSlow. [click to continue…]

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How To: Optimize Your Site with Image Sprites

July 25, 2007 · 41 comments

With my last few posts on website optimization, one of the larger areas of focus was reducing HTTP requests. By reducing the number of requests your browser must make to retrieve all of your website, you speed up your site’s loading time with less overall HTTP latency for requests. [click to continue…]

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flickrSLiDR Has a New Owner

July 24, 2007

As an update to my flickrSLiDR slideshow tool post, I’d like to announce that I have sold flickrSLiDR. It is now owned by a guy in Sweden who bought it from me for a cool $3,000. Not bad for a weekend project if I may say so myself. As part of the deal, the flickrSLiDR [...]

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MediaTemple Pioneers iPhone Account Center, (dpv)

July 24, 2007

Put this into perspective: it’s 9pm on a Friday night and you’re out in San Francisco at a bar when you get a text message, your friend tells you your server is down for whatever reason. Normally you would be hard-pressed to fix the issue while out on the town, until now. MediaTemple will be [...]

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California HQ Pics

July 21, 2007

I’ve been so busy during my stay here in San Francisco that I haven’t had the time to post much – less even go online, other than to upload pictures to Flickr. I’ve been leaving the house around 8am in the morning and getting back at around the same time the next day. I did [...]

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On Being a Website Performance Junkie

July 17, 2007

When it comes to high-performance, speed and optimization, I’m there. I have written several articles about this subject in the past with 5 Ways to Speed Up Your Site, How To: Optimize Your CSS Even More and a brief look into image maps to reduce HTTP calls and bandwidth usage. However, similar to modifying a [...]

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AMD Aims to Increase Global Internet Adoption

July 15, 2007

AMD’s innovative 50×15 program is determined to accelerate the adoption of the Internet to 50% of the world’s population by the year 2015. The program has been around since 2004 and has already helped countries considerably with a variety of robust partnerships and technical solutions.

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Top 100

July 14, 2007

Just an FYI to everyone that reads, subscribes and checks this site incessantly, I recently entered the ranks of the Top 100 blogs as tracked by Technorati, out of 70M+ blogs. Technorati takes into account unique links within the past 6 months, or at least that’s how they used to do it.

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Q&A with Speakers at iMeme

July 13, 2007

This past week Fortune magazine held an invite-only tech conference called iMeme, where business executives met to discuss current issues regarding how technology is vital to the future of their company’s growth. Prior to the event technology editor David Kirkpatrick asked some of the speakers

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Thoughts on Flock 0.9

July 11, 2007

Recently the social web browser company Flock rolled out a milestone release, version 0.9. While it’s not a 1.0, the new release totes some awe-inspiring new features that put it on a different level than the last major release, Beta 1 (my review), almost a year ago. Over the last year there have been

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Belkin Updates Wireless USB Hub, Maybe This One Works

July 11, 2007

Belkin has been good at creating hype for their wireless “cable-free” USB hubs utilizing Ultra-wideband. As you might remember from my review in February, Belkin sent me their $199 4-port wireless USB hub to review. I essentially deemed it an utter failure. It only worked with

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Play It Safe, Secure Google Notifier

July 10, 2007

Chances are that if you use Gmail or Gmail for your domain, you are also a devout user of Google Notifier to let you know when your inbox needs your attention. Also, chances are that if you read this blog you have been on your neighbor’s Wi-Fi an insecure Wi-Fi network a few times before. [...]

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