Low-Bandwidth user experience
I make websites, and I manage a few web servers. Making sure that pages load quickly is a pretty fundamental part of my job.
Lately I have been thinking a lot about how much more important this concern is for people who are in low-bandwidth environments (my house in rural NC), and especially in [...]
The Reality of the Open Source Desktop in Developing World
Great, reveling post about the remaining difficulty of running Ubuntu (the “sexiest” open source Windows-killer yet) in Ethopia by Andrew Heavens over at Meskel Square.
There is one thing that the bright-eyed fans of Ubuntu and its kind never tell you. That is that if you install it on to an old Windows machine in a [...]
Combining RSS feeds and Displaying them on Your Page with Javascript and PHP
Last night I was trying to do something that I thought would be pretty simple: display a bunch of recent weblog posts on one page.
There is a great online community of folks in the biofuels blogosphere, and this page would give a quick summary of their myriad, nerdy, wonderful events and research.
So the [...]
Five fun facts from Broadband Wiki
Here’s this from global-minded site about broadband technologies:
“And now for the fun part….
Did you know that Iceland is only behind South Korea, Netherlands and Denmark in Internet penetration, and 84% of its households have Internet connection?
Australia adds 40,000 broadband connections every month.
In Spain, you can get a 20 megabit/second connection for $36 a month and [...]