January 10, 2004|
from Scoble: Scott Watermaysk has uploaded a new version of .TEXT, which is the blogging engine that drives Longhornblogs. 11:37:06 AM 
|
|
From Scoble: I've been doing some optimizing. You might notice my page loads faster now. How did I do it? A couple ways. First, I'm only displaying the last two days. That makes my front page 1/3 faster to load alone. Then, I looked at my div names and saw that instead of naming a div "disclaimer" that I could simply name it "d." Optimizing div names made the page size here smaller too (and once I finish republishing my site, will make my CSS file size smaller too). Might not seem like a big deal, but look at my file size compared to anyone else who has a Radio UserLand site. Why do I do this? I think it's respectful to the people who pay my bandwidth bill. I have 1000 to 4000 visits per day now. The smaller I can make the file size, the less load I'll put on UserLand's servers and bandwidth bill. Plus, I'm stuck using dialup right now, so any optimizations I can get pay off bigtime for modem users. Downside? It's a little harder to figure out my div structure, but I don't have that many divs that it's a big problem. By the way, want to use my Radio Userland files on your own blog? Feel free to download and use them. 10:23:52 AM
|
|
Revolution-programming for non-programmers, takes off where Hypercard was abandoned 9:17:51 AM
|
|
Chandler .2 Test-Stay Tuned 8:59:25 AM
|
|
I'm forming a new corporation to own the software I'm creating around Channel Z, including weblogs.com and scripting.com, and the new Feeds site. Talking with the lawyer yesterday he asked what the name of the new corp would be. "Can I get back to you on that?" I said. [Scripting News] from one of Dave's earlier posts: The plan for the new software, whose codename is Channel Z, is for me to burn in the editing tool for the next week while visiting the Bay Area, and if all goes well to start a very small beta group on Monday or Tuesday of the following week (December 1) and then offer it to all who come to the Thursday meeting (the 4th). Eventually it will be released broadly and we'll work with others to make authoring tools in other environments (such as OmniOutliner, Joe, Flash, WebOutliner) and back-ends (lots of places). On the back-end if you have code that processes RSS (with categories) and OPML, you're basically ready to go. We're gearing up to cover a big story and to be ready to cover one that may come along any day. The idea is to broaden the pipe, make writing for the Web more powerful and make the structures we build richer, have more lasting value, and integrate with each other in interesting ways. 7:09:04 AM
|
Last update: 01/02/2004; 1:27:52 PM .
