- BEA WebLogic Event Server, First and only Java container for high-performance, event-driven applications – BEA WebLogic Event Server is the first and only Java container for high-performance event-driven applications
- It’s Still the Latency, Stupid…pt.1 – If you think bandwidth is the only thing affecting your network speed, think again. As pipes get bigger, latency becomes the real bottleneck. This article discusses network latency, how to measure it, why its important, and how to plan for it. Complex con
- Fedora 7 released – You can find a tour filled with pictures and videos of this exciting new release of Fedora 7. This release includes significant new versions of many key components and technologies
- TableKit – TableKit is a collection of HTML table enhancements using the Prototype framework. TableKit currently implements row striping, column sorting, column resizing and cell editing using Ajax.
- Google Gears API Developer’s Guide (Beta) – Architecture – During development of Gears, we experimented with many different architectures for offline-enabled web applications. In this document we briefly look at some of them and explore their advantages and disadvantages.
- InfoQ: A Wicket User Revisits JSF – Peter recently took a 2nd look at JSF after developing most recently with Wicket. The evaluation was prompted by his recent writing on migrating from Spring MVC / Webflow to Wicket.
- Google Gears – Enabling Offline Web Applications – Google Gears (BETA) is an open source browser extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionality using following JavaScript APIs:
Tag Archives: bandwidth
Daily del.icio.us for Mar 05, 2007 through Mar 06, 2007
- Coding Horror: Reducing Your Website’s Bandwidth Usage – What can we do to reduce a website’s bandwidth usage?
- Amazon Web Services Developer Connection : Building a Struts-Based Web Application on Amazon S3 – This article provides a tutorial on integrating the Amazon S3 REST API for Java with the Struts web application framework to create a web management user interface to the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).
- mxGraph – JavaScript library for diagrams – mxGraph is a Javascript library that uses built-in browser capabilities to provide an interactive drawing and diagramming solution.
- AJAX Magazine: Why Can Google Not Eat Its Dogfood, While Yahoo and Microsoft Do? – What’s surprising is that Google is not using GWT for its critical online service, which almost all of them are AJAX-based or have AJAX veneer: GMail, GMaps, GReader, GDocs, GSpreadsheet, GAJAX-Search, GFinance, GHomePage, … none of them use GWT! The qu
- Ten Javascript Tools Everyone Should Have – Javascript frameworks have exploded on the scene over the last few years but they’re no replacement for a good toolbox: those little snippets of code you seem to include in every single project. Here’s my list of 10 essential Javascript tools everyone sho
- 0xCAFEBABE – Securing Spring WS Client with XWSS – In this post, I will show you how I used XWSS to add WS-Security support to web services invocations. I used XWSS 2.0 from jwsdp-2.0. I had to add xmlsec.jar from the jwsdp-shared/lib in order for the example to work.
- Tableless forms – Another nice CSS stylesheet for styling forms without tables
- Getting Started with Google Code Hosting, Subversion, and TortoiseSVN without feeling like an Idiot « //engtech – Getting Started with Google Code Hosting, Subversion, and TortoiseSVN without feeling like an Idiot
- Starbucks’ ‘venti’ problem – Los Angeles Times – Time and again in recent years, we’ve seen small, cutting-edge and quirky brands gain critical mass ? only to lose their charm and customer appeal after they engage in breakneck expansion.
- When is Scrum not Scrum? (Agile Advice) – Tobias mentions that one must insist on agile engineering practices when doing Scrum. There are two problems with this.
- Agile Thoughts » Blog Archive » When is Scrum not Scrum? – I teach what I know works and what I see as being appropriate; there are slight differences in each context of course, but there are certain practices I have found to be effective, all of which differ from standard Scrum practices
- coded ruminations – Selling Agile, a Smell? – The use of Agile must be adopted using an iterative incremental approach – a nimble approach – an Agile approach. Agile is not to be sold, it is to be used.
Holy Bandwidth – Take 2
Just signed up for something called Road Runner Turbo which is the faster version of Road Runner cable Internet service that is supposed to provide up to 8 Mbps downstream and up to 512 Kbps upstream. And the results don’t disappoint – Here is my bandwidth minutes after the upgrade:
Here is the before speed-test snapshot I had taken a couple of months ago. The download is almost twice as fast and the upload is at least 100K faster and close to 500kbps in other random tests.
PS: Speed Test conducted using the Speakeasy Speed Test flash application.
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