App Speed
The Most Important Metric
Speed. The metric by which all websites are eventually judged. You may have the most beautiful design, the best content, the latest markup and coolest JavaScript libraries but in the end it doesn’t mean squat if your pages take forever to load. Do we really know what we need to do to improve performance or do we merely think we do?
Saving Cycles
The classic approach to improving application performance is to look everywhere to save processor cycles. How many of us have spent countless days tracking down inefficient database queries or errant loops just trying to save a line here or a line there in our application? Sometimes it seems as if we do nothing but try to think of ways to re-factor our code to save lines. It feels as if we can save just one more line of code it will run faster and we trim and tweak and pour over the code looking for every place we can cut back and shave.
At the end of the day, however, how much have we really saved? Is it even noticeable to the end-user? Read more…
Clarity, Understanding, Communication and Integrity
In the software development business, project methodologies are discussed ….a lot. There are many to choose from and they all have their pros and cons. As a software development company it is important to have a standard project methodology defined and used consistently. Read more…
Technology Addicts Offered Treatment at London Hospital: http://digg.com/d31M4HG?t
Inside Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Testing Lab: http://digg.com/d31M4Zt?t
On March 13, 1989, the internet was born.
A physicist named Tim Berners-Lee proposed to his boss at CERN (the world’s largest particle physics laboratory) a concept of using hypertext—those still-familiar underlined links, which, when clicked, take you to another page of content related to that link, to facilitate sharing information among researchers. By Christmas of the following year the world wide web was up and running on two computers. Eventually CERN put the web in the public domain, ensuring the world would have a single system for accessing the internet. Today it is hard to imagine a world without websites, Google searches, video streaming or music downloads. Happy 21st Birthday World Wide Web!
Here are some interesting facts about the World Wide Web: Read more…
Off-shore development projects can have a lot of appeal. Financially the rates are cheap, the technical resources appear well-trained and capable; and availability is immediate and abundant. The off-shore consulting firms in the US promise a fast turn around, well developed code and a high level of quality. It seems like the best of all worlds: “I can lower my employee overhead cost, I get a high-quality product for my customer and in the end better overall margins”; it’s a hard deal to pass up. Read more…
Whether you call them web metrics, web analytics, or web statistics, it is all the same thing: the behavior of visitors on your site. Being able to measure this behavior is the biggest advantage of web sites over traditional mediums.
The difficulty with web metrics is that most people don’t really know what to look for. A term like ‘hits’ is frequently used to indicate a lot of traffic to a web site, but really hits may not be where it’s at. ‘Page’, ‘file’, and ‘hits’ are antiquated terms that should boil down to one thing, visitors. Read more…
Developers of the World Wide Web (WWW), it is of the utmost importance for us to insist on writing compliant code. While it may take longer initially to validate your code, and perhaps even cause a few cross-browser compatibility issues, if we the coders of web do not insist on a higher expectation of ourselves, our websites, and our applications, then the only thing we can expect is a business community that will never see the full potential of search engine optimization, and clients that will never fully maximize their potential. Read more…
Welcome to the Einstein’s Eyes Blog (Blogstein’s Eyes)!
We would like to thank you for your interest, and to let you know what you can expect in our coming articles. Being professionals in the web development industry, we would like to share some of our knowledge and experience with the community that has helped us grow and prosper. We will be posting regular articles about every aspect of web development; from the code, to marketing and Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
So come back again, bring your morning coffee and join us in our pursuit of excellence on the web!
New articles will be starting on Friday, March 12th, 2010!
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