Sergey Chernyshev

After a few days of playing around with oauth-php library and a weekend of fighting with it and wrapping my brain around OAuth workflow, I finally added OAuth-base login to UserBase. Right now only module for Meetup is ready, but most of the logic is in generic OAuth class so I hope other modules will…

I wrote in my performance blog about solving some web performance problems using human computation. Read it here: Using Human Computation to answer web performance questions

2011 is starting slowly so January session for NY Social Media Meetup is rescheduled for February 2nd, but the date is confirmed now! RSVP here: http://www.meetup.com/Social-Media-NY/calendar/15475788/ Demo is still TBD, please let me know if you’d like to present. KEYNOTE Regulatory compliance in social media is an emerging issue that is evolving daily. For most…

I closed a networking section of Stoyan’s perfplanet calendar with an article about easy cache headers and pointless 304s. http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2010/easy-cache-headers/

On December 13th, Marcus Westin (@marcuswestin) from Meebo is going to talk about learnings from speeding up Meebo bar. RSVP http://www.meetup.com/Web-Performance-NY/calendar/14978519/ It’s a holiday session so come and win Amazon Kindle, courtesy of Catchpoint! Read more in ShowSlow blog

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…