Some time ago I created MediaWiki Widget for TypePad Connect: http://www.mediawikiwidgets.org/TypePad_Connect While editing a wiki page and going to different versions of it, I noticed that Comments widget has a well known issue – it has no idea which comments should be displayed on the page if page has different URLs (ad campaign tracking codes…

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…

Did some maintenance on my projects – added OpenID support to wikis: http://www.sharingbuttons.org/Special:OpenIDLogin http://www.techpresentations.org/Special:OpenIDLogin http://www.mediawikiwidgets.org/Special:OpenIDLogin 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…

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…

I’m giving a talk about Web Performance at NY Web Standards Meetup on March 19th. I’ll talk about the performance of Web applications and sites in general, why it matters and what can be done to improve it. Presentation covers both front and back-end performance, with emphasis on the front-end and it will be useful…

Finally, I spent some time researching Google Gadgets implementation and implemented it successfully as MediaWiki widget: http://www.mediawikiwidgets.org/Google_Gadget Previously I had some issues with it as there was no control over the values in the URLs without escaping them, but Gadget wizard didn’t really allow to easily copy unescaped values for the URL. To avoid this…

I’m trying to summarize my knowledge about the URLs and research all possible aspects of URL planning and design to write up something useful for others to use. If you have any links to good articles, presentations, research papers or something, please send them my way (post as comments here, or twitt them at me…