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Overcome Your Caching Conundrums [Server Side Essentials]
by dzc
October 2009
faq - swfobject - SWFObject FAQ - Project Hosting on Google Code
by srcmax
16. Why does Firefox load my SWF twice?
Firefox 3 has a known issue that sometimes causes a swf to be 'double initialized'. The problem appears to be fixed in their codebase, but has not been released yet. See the following bugs for more details: bug 438830 and bug 445599.
Or, if you have "Disable cache" selected in your Firefox Web Developer Toolbar extension a double load will occur.
Optimize caching
by karlcow
Most web pages include resources that change infrequently, such as CSS files, image files, JavaScript files, and so on. These resources take time to download over the network, which increases the time it takes to load a web page. HTTP caching allows these resources to be saved, or cached, by a browser or proxy. Once a resource is cached, a browser or proxy can refer to the locally cached copy instead of having to download it again on subsequent visits to the web page. Thus caching is a double win: you reduce round-trip time by eliminating numerous HTTP requests for the required resources, and you substantially reduce the total payload size of the responses. Besides leading to a dramatic reduction in page load time for subsequent user visits, enabling caching can also significantly reduce the bandwidth and hosting costs for your site.
Linux.com :: Using free software for HTTP load testing
by karlcow
A good way to see how your Web applications and server will behave under high load is by testing them with a simulated load. We tested several free software tools that do such testing to see which work best for what kinds of sites.
Python Package Index : poster 0.5
by karlcow
The modules in the Python standard library don't provide a way to upload large files via HTTP without having to load the entire file into memory first.
poster provides support for both streaming POST requests as well as multipart/form-data encoding of string or file parameters
Gearman
by Xavier Lacot
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September 2009
YouTube - How to Install Ubuntu Linux
by tadeufilippini
Add Links To WordPress List Pages - This, WordPress, Page, ‘Example, Example, Subpage - WP Engineer
by mozkart
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Practical web design guides to reduce site load time
by jakamos
IP Routers : Speed, Security and Economy
by access2
Monopoly City Streets: What's going on?
by srcmax
We had planned for a lot of traffic on launch day and had been load testing the game - in fact, we've been testing and optimizing for a whole month. However, between the enthusiasm of Monopoly fans around the world, everyone who was excited to try out the new experience and non-stop mentions of the game on Twitter, blogs and everywhere else, our servers were overwhelmed. Based on the stats we have, we show a daily rate of about 1.7 million unique visitors, but the figure is likely far higher.
August 2009
cabel.name: FancyZoom 1.1
by gregg
& 10 others
July 2009
Palette Grabbe - addons mozilla
by decembre
phatfusion
by cascamorto
& 7 others
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June 2009
YouTube - Walt Disney - Pigs Is Pigs - 1954
by julie
The presence of a couple of guinea pigs at the Westcote railroad station create countless offspring as well as a load of paperwork for administrative bureaucrats including by-the-book agent Flanner...
Siege
by rodo
walking papers lives (tecznotes)
by karlcow
OpenStreetMap, the wiki-style map of the world that anyone can edit, is in need of a new way to add content. I've been working on a way to "round trip" map data through paper, to make it easier to perform the kinds of eyes-on-the-street edits that OSM needs now the most, as well as distributing the load by making it possible for legible, easy notes to be shared and turned into real geographical data.
Walking Papers is a working service that implements this paper idea, based on initial technical experimentation from back in February.
