At home I work on a 6+ year-old Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop. Yeah, I know, but that’s how it is. Recently, the old bugger has been creeping to a near standstill. I used to laugh when my mother told me … Continue reading
Category Archives: performance
Today’s Readings
With all the hubba-baloo circling between Steve Jobs and Adobe, here is an interesting take on the situation, and prediction of the world in which we will soon live and work. Thanks for the forward, Dan. I’ve written before about … Continue reading
Today’s Readings
Use stored underground wind to replace coal? Or attach a kite to boat for electricity? The idea that designers should know how to code is a hot topic lately. The next time you have a few hours to read a … Continue reading
Google Page Speed: It’s Their World, We Just Live In It
I briefly mentioned Google Page Speed in a recent post, but I’m just now making the time to dig deeper into this Firefox add-on (truthfully, it is a Firebug add-on, so you’ll need that installed first). And, as one might … Continue reading
Today’s Readings
Our man Jeremy Keith and his Mad Lib-style registration page for Huffduffer got some nice kudos from Luke W. In fact, Luke liked the Mad Lib approach so much, he convinced a client to try some A/B Testing on their … Continue reading
Today’s Readings
A number of improvements come our way from the World of Google, including a clipboard and new save buttons for Google docs, user-feedback upgrades to Google buzz, and continued expansion on what Google Scripts can do. The jQuery world is … Continue reading
Today’s Readings
Happy President’s Day everyone! Another random sampling of all things web… Google Maps just got out-Googled… Of all people, Microsoft, created an amazing “augmented-reality mapping technology“. A lame name, even by Microsoft standards, but a truly impressive technology. As the … Continue reading
Today’s Readings
So, how did this Inter-web-thingy get started, anyhow? An interesting piece I stumbled across… I have to admit that I do not know who Michael Bierut is (you designers may now cringe), but if Cameron Moll is impressed with the … Continue reading
Velocity 09: “High Performance Search at Google”
Yes, I know this was a while ago, but I finally made the time to listen through this entire presentation: http://velocityconference.blip.tv/file/2292982/ Kyle Scholz and Yaron Friedman are front-end developers for Google Search, focused on one thing: Make Google Search faster. … Continue reading
Introducing the New & Improved aarontgrogg.com
Since the day I launched this blog, I basically stopped thinking about my name-sake page, aarontgrogg.com. I converted it to a portal page, just linking out to the various locations you can find information about me on the web, and … Continue reading