I was struggling with DBUpgrade in projects with multiple independent components. I had to maintain the schema in main project which was quite crazy considering that projects are independent and have different timelines that had to be in sync. So I changed DBUpgrade to OO model and added namespacing so you can have multiple schema-versioning…

I moved all my performance-related posts to ShowSlow blog. You can read them now at http://www.showslow.com/blog/ RSS feed is also available at http://feeds.showslow.com/ShowSlowBlog

ShowSlow 0.10 had some minor issues with install packages – fixed now in v0.10.2. If you had troubles installing 0.10, go ahead and download the latest package: showslow_0.10.2.zip (zip, 862K) showslow_0.10.2.tgz (tarball, 730K) Installation instructions can be found in the wiki: http://www.showslow.org/Installation_and_configuration Kudos go to Johan Bleuzen for filing a bug about the install problems.…

New ShowSlow version 0.10 – all measurements are now surfaced in the breakdown sections on details page. A few particularly interesting ones, like Page Speed’s Transfer Size and Page Size and dynaTrace’s Total time on network / JavaScript and rendering, for example. Also some visual prettying up is done with CSS3 gradients for bars (falling…

On October 13th, we have a special speaker: Joshua Bixby (@JoshuaBixby), President of Strangeloop Networks and author of Web Performance Today blog will talk about Web Performance Automation. Abstract: Depending on who you talk to, performance automation can range from the holy grail of performance tuning to a set of programming hacks that will bring…