OK, ShowSlow is taking shape and I decided to follow “Release Early, Release Often” motto so now it’s open source: http://code.google.com/p/showslow/ Current version accepts YSlow beacons and you can configure your browser to post to public showslow.com beacon or install your own instance if, for example, you want to hide the results from others. Sample…

After talking to Steve Souders about local events at Web2.0Expo in San Francisco, I realized that New York is missing Web Performance optimization event. I went ahead and saved 75% using Meetup.com discount code (Web2SF09 – graciously provided by Derek Odegard of Meetup team) and now you’re welcome to join New York Web Performance Workshop…

Yesterday, I talked about Web Performance at New York Web Standards Meetup hosted by theMechanism. Thanks to all attendees for coming to the presentation, I hope it was informative and worked as a call to action. If you have any questions or need help with your performance optimization project, feel free to post your comments…

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…