January 2010
3 posts
In Retrospect: Several Hilarious Reactions to the...
If the reactions to the launch of the original iPod (and the subsequent domination of the device) are any indication of what the future holds for the iPad, then things look bright. If the ipod is only the world’s most baddass MP3 player then I don’t know if I’m really going to stand in line to buy it, I have a cd walkman and a burner already (link) I really wanted to like it....
Jan 28th
We not only reduced our bandwidth, and how much we... →
Not privacy related, I thought this bit from TheRumpus’s article on Facebook privacy was particularly interesting: …when we streamlined the browsing of photo albums, you know, where you can click ‘next’ above the photo, and the page stays the same except you get the next photo? We did tests on that, and actually found out it increased the number of page views by 77%, essentially...
Jan 13th
Google Analytics Proxy →
I’ve forked Robby Russell’s Google Analytics Proxy implementation on GitHub and modified it to work without the Prototype JavaScript framework.  I’m currently using jQuery for all if the JavaScript needs in my Rails apps, but still wanted to be able to use Robby’s simple method of tracking events in production, and writing to the log in development.
Jan 3rd