This photo was taken on the approach into Portland, Maine (KPWM). Those of you from the area should recognize the Old Port outside the window.
Yesterday the Beech Aero Club hosted a fly-in at Barnes in Westfield, Mass.
I performed my pre-flight on the plane and started up as usual. I noted that the anmeter was [...]
For those of you that might have missed Google’s announcement this week, they will soon be offering a way to inject advertisements into RSS feeds. This could certainly shake things up in the world of RSS feeds.
When I explain RSS/XML/Atom feeds to people I often talk about how I can read the headlines from [...]
I have an idea for a new project and need to solicit feedback. What do you think constitutes a good website? What elements are common in websites you like?
The project I have in mind doesn’t matter, but from your background (whatever that might be) describe what you feel are important elements of good website [...]
The Beech Aero Club (BAC) reached a new milestone yesterday; 400 paid members! Congratulations to the club for an extremely successful first year. On July 4, 2005 BAC will be one year old and it was around August 1, 2004 that we started accepting members.
The club has held a “half-national” fly-in, several regional fly-ins, [...]
Many people have recently discovered a patent filed by Google which discusses many of their techniques for rating websites. Knowing exactly how Google ranks sites would be a gold-mine for search engine optimizers as there would no longer be speculation as to the best way to achieve high rankings in Google.
It should be noted [...]
Most blogs offer RSS, Atom, or XML feeds of their news. These feeds are specially generated files that include the main content of your blog in a very specific format. The format allows other programs such as news aggregators to display your blog outside of the context of your browser.
These feeds have other uses [...]
Yesterday in a routine overview of server log files I came across one website that had substantially more traffic than usual. An investigation started. I was hoping to find evidence of the “slashdot effect” and discover the traffic was real. However that was not the case.
Instead I discovered that one particular IP address had [...]
This might go over the head of many of my regular readers. However I always like giving thanks (and a few links) to software that helps me do my job…. especially open source software.
A few months ago I installed eAccelerator on my Xserve. eAccelerator is a program which basically compiles and caches PHP [...]
Determining how fast a particular website or webpage loads can be a difficult task. Many factors come into play such as server load, network traffic, the visitor’s computer, the visitor’s internet connection, etc.
Assuming all of those factors are working as designed, how fast should a webpage load? A seven second rule has been cited many [...]
Last week I blogged about how many websites use images to create fancy text instead of using actual styled text. An extreme example of this is the website for Sky Designs Products.
Sure, there is plenty of text on the site you and I as humans can read. However 100% of that text is comprised [...]