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MaxCDN has gone through numerous revisions throughout the years, but we wanted to do something different… really different. After spending months on end mocking up designs, straggling to get content together and peer checked, and dabbling with code to make things just right, the new MaxCDN.com is finally here, and man is it looking better than ever. // Just Getting Started: Design
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One of the better spots to enjoy a bowl of ramen noodles here in New York is Minca, in the East Village. Minca is the kind of place just out of the way enough that as you’re about to get there, you start wondering if you’ve already passed it. A bowl of noodles at Minca isn’t quite as neatly put together as those of other ramen establishments in the city, but it is without a doubt among the tastiest.
Making the web speedier and safer with SPDY
In the two years since we announced SPDY , we’ve been working with the web community on evolving the spec and getting SPDY deployed on the Web. Chrome, Android Honeycomb devices, and Google's servers have been speaking SPDY for some time, bringing important benefits to users. For example, thanks to SPDY, a significant percentage of Chrome users saw a decrease in search latency when we launched SSL-search.Kill the Telcos Save the Internet - The Unsocial Network
Someone is killing the Internet. Since you probably use the Internet everyday you might find this surprising. It almost sounds silly, and the reason is technical, but our crack team of networking experts has examined the patient and made the diagnosis. What did they find? Diagnostic team : the Packet Pushers gang ( Greg Ferro , Jan Zorz , Ivan Pepelnjak ) in the podcast How We Are Killing the Internet . Diagnosis : invasive tunnelation. ( tubes anyone?
You do not agree with that? Have you ever looked at the details of your page load time and analyzed what really impacts Page Load Time? Let me show you with a real life example and let me explain that in most cases you only control 1/3 of the time required to load a page as the rest is consumed by 3rd party content that you do not have under control.
You only control 1/3 of your Page Load Performance! Application Performance
TagSoup home page
Index Introduction This is the home page of TagSoup, a SAX-compliant parser written in Java that, instead of parsing well-formed or valid XML, parses HTML as it is found in the wild: poor, nasty and brutish , though quite often far from short. TagSoup is designed for people who have to process this stuff using some semblance of a rational application design. By providing a SAX interface, it allows standard XML tools to be applied to even the worst HTML.URL
The Rise Of The API, The Future Of The Web
Last month, Twitter and Facebook made some moves to hide RSS feeds and put focus more on their APIs . There was the typical ranting that followed the news, some in favor of RSS and others not. Now that the conversation and controversy of RSS being killed again has died down, I wanted to address the real question behind Twitter’s and Facebook’s decisions.As web designers and developers, we love to see how our sites and web apps look and function using a really good browser. It’s true that with the release of IE9, Microsoft has made great progress in the so-called browser wars. And although IE9 is a fast and reliable browser that has pretty good support for CSS3 and HTML5, there are still quite a few missing technologies that we all would like to see in Internet Explorer soon.
How do you convince the average web user to switch to a non-IE browser?
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It is widely accepted that fast-loading pages improve the user experience. In recent years, many sites have started using AJAX techniques to reduce latency. Rather than round-trip through the server retrieving a completely new page with every click, often the browser can either alter the layout of the page instantly or fetch a small amount of HTML, XML, or javascript from the server and alter the existing page. In either case, this significantly decreases the amount of time between a user click and the browser finishing rendering the new content.
Optimizing Page Load Time
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About gathering web 2.0 personal data into one safer place Everyday web 2.0 application holds our personal data into proprietary servers. While hosting providers could offer dedicated machines, I imagined once that, in a perfect future, I may rent a server for hosting my own personal data and let authorize web 2.0 applications to operate on such data. While reading recently a French paper on semantic web ( Le web sémantique ou l'importance des données liées ), I have found an interesting idea [from David Larlet ] about such dedicated data servers. " Personal data represent currently the value that an application get while offering its service, often a "free" one. In most cases, you can't get back this value without being a geek, then it would be lost in case of policy change, bankruptcy, database crash, etc.
Dominique's Weblog
I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I’m saying something really really important has happened for the future of the Open Web. Finally, it looks like there might be a solution to the video codecs and patent encumbered alternatives we have been dealing with. Background About two months ago I wrote What Will Happen To Open Video On The Web? and expressed fear for the future of video on the web, and that the H.264 codec will never be something solid to build on, due to it being heavily patented.