Steve Souders wrote a post about people mispronouncing his name.
Obviously, I’m an emigrant which makes it different, but in my case people usually can’t finish pronouncing my last name and stumble somewhere in the middle ;)
I even thought about borrowing a nickname from Ernesto Guevara, so it’s easier to remember like Sergey “Che” Chernyshev, but wasn’t sure if I really wanted to be associated with communism ;)
It’s hard to translate this joke to English, but I felt like posting it anyway – it describes what people feel when they actually try to pronounce my name:
I’m done with my copy of Even Faster Web Sites.
It’s definitely a book worth reading if you’re well into web performance optimization and want to step even further when all simpler optimizations don’t bring any more improvements.
JavaScript sections from Ajaxians and Nicholas Zakas are quite interesting but definitely for most complex 2.0 apps with tons of JS and front-end processing.
Flushing early and CSS selector performance are important too, Steve was talking about it at Web 2.0 @ SF – CSS is a bit beyond my comprehension unfortunately, but flush is easy to comprehend for those who made at lease a single IO app, especially networked.
One thing among tools – in my opinion, WebPageTest.org was given less credit then it deserves – it’s connection view (next to the waterfall) and content breakdown chart as well as empty/primed dual run definitely bring it high in the “packet sniffer” section and not only “analytic tools” section. And I agree with Steve that it’s availability through the web give it a huge value in the eyes of developers and business decision makers. It’s very possible though that that section of the book was done when most of these features were added.
If you didn’t read Even Faster Web Sites, you probably should. As well as its prequel – High Performance Web Sites.
I’ve done some integration of OpenID selector into MediaWiki OpenID extension and some fixing/improvements of the latter.
You can see changes on TPr, MWW and SharingButtons.
Next week will take a look into checking it back in. Still need to figure out if I can check in BSD code (selector) into MW tree or need to write something similar (I’m even thinking about creating something like SharingButtons, but for OpenID providers) and release with GPL.
Did some maintenance on my projects – added OpenID support to wikis:
Also working on embedding OpenID selector – check Sharing Buttons OpenID login page (still needs some work, but quite promising).
Also changed all wikis and blogs to use memcached instead of APC for cache storage – it seems to be much more efficient.
While walking to work early today I came up with the name for my blog – “Binary Orders of Magnitude”. I think it’s a good name for personal blog and sounds very big and global as all blog names should sound as all of us live to accomplish something big. Plus it has some geekish humor to it ;)
Hope you enjoy it – let me know what you think.
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