Why slow? Get YSlow
Web pages are funny things. They *seem* like they're standalone thingies hiding behind URLs, but they're actually a mess of possibly multiple requests that are rendered independently. It's a wonder they work at all some times. Making them work fast shouldn't be rocket surgery, but with so many slow sites out there, I guess it is. Yahoo has released a tool to help you identify areas that need improvement. The new tool is YSlow. It's a plugin for the incredible Firefox plugin Firebug. Running YSlow on a site gives you reports on the individual objects that make up your Web...
Wow - Klaus Nomi
How could it have been that I never heard of Klaus Nomi before today? Oh, mymymy...
Lessons learned while teaching
Well, I finished providing my first training session since 2000 (or so). As always, I learned a lot of things (hopefully not as much as the students). The course was a custom, "Upgrading to .NET with VB" that I wrote for the customer.
Right now, I'm a little conflicted about the session. Personally, I think it was awful, but they seemed to be more or less happy with it. Most of my conflict is around the act of training in general. Before I had joined that company, training was the way I made most of my living: I travelled, teaching the...