Over the past 5 years we’ve seen an amazing amount of growth of major disruptive technologies in mobile, information, collaboration, and cloud. Each area has spawned new and amazing capabilities that have transformed our lives, the way we communicate, how we consume our news and access information, and the way we work. The trade-off of […]

In our previous post  on  Selecting the best keywords for Google AdWords campaign we went through the 5 steps of building the best keywords list for your business and how negative keywords can help you improve your ads. Another tool that will increase your ROI is “Keyword matches”. Keyword matches Keyword match types give you more […]

Taxonomy of Tips presented a classification scheme for the many performance tips that abound on the Internet. The consensus seems to be that initial page rendering (category #5) and after-the-fact reflow (category #6) affect performance more dramatically than any other category. Today’s article provides a basic understanding of rendering and reflow.JavaScript can execute before the page […]

For sure you know what URL shortening is – especially if you use Twitter. And as you know, URLs may be shortened and yet still link directly to the required page. For example, the URL  /2012/09/size-matters-un-grow-your-url can be shortened to https://bit.ly/url, https://tinyurl.com/url or https://goo.gl/url. Looks in some way better, right? There are several reasons for using URL shortening: The list […]

JQuery is free and open source software licensed under the GNU General Public License. It allows web developers to create animations, handle events, develop Ajax applications, and add high level advanced effects. In essence, it allows web designers to come up with powerful, dynamic and cool web pages. It is pretty easy to use too, […]

Platform as a Service (PaaS) falls under the basic model of cloud computing services that includes Saas and IaaS, and the newest addition to the family – XaaS or “Anything as a Service” (a designation which shows the growing ubiquity of internet services). PaaS can be best thought of as a way to rent hardware, […]

In a previous post we discussed how to improve the performance of BerkeleyDB by tuning the cache size. Let’s see how Paid Monitor can help you keep tabs on the cache hit rate and other critical database metrics. We use a custom monitor created by a perl script, monitor_bdb.pl, which can be downloaded from our repository […]

Do you think Dropbox is the best file hosting service around? It might be, but that party may be over soon!  Copy, by Barracuda Networks, was released very recently and the new file hosting service has already had a lot of press.  Let’s talk a bit more about why Copy is better than Dropbox. Get […]