Posted by Ian Holsman
Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:16:00 GMT
i’m a bit behind on net news lately..
I just read a big announcement that yahoo is supporting openID.
But when I read the fine print i was disappointed. What it says is yahoo will let you use your existing Yahoo ID on other sites, but it won’t let you use existing OpenID service provider elsewhere. AOL is in the same boat.. I can use my AOL ID on external sites, but not use a external openId to log into their finance site (they say it’s going to happen as soon as they can get the product managers OK with it at least)
So.. at the moment I think all of this openID support is just fluff for most of the large sites.
the only win I can see is for smaller sites, who want to make it easier for people to register
Posted in General | Tags openid | no comments
Posted by Ian Holsman
Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:33:00 GMT
AOL just released an internal performance tool called Pagetest.
It’s a IE plugin which breaks down how long the individual components take. very similar to ItScales stuff I did years ago. (but much better).
Gratz Dave, Carson, & Pat!
Posted in monitoring | Tags aol, performance | 1 comment
Posted by Ian Holsman
Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:54:00 GMT
What they need the most in the short term is someone who could do customer support between 3am and 11am, London time, so someone in Australia would be perfect
Do you happen to know anyone who might be interested in the job?
Ideally it would be someone who’s familiar with web technologies (web, DNS, e-mail servers), linux and maybe some web frameworks (Django, Rails,. ..).
The candidate would be doing customer support (answering tickets) but if they’re interested they could also do sysadmin work or even development work.
see the webfaction job page for more details
Posted in Lazyweb | Tags django, job, mysql, webfaction | no comments
Posted by Ian Holsman
Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:08:00 GMT
talk about painful, but we made it.
hints for the people who just svn up, and don’t follow the dev docs.. i’m sure there is a nicer conversion than this, but it worked for m
1. truncate the session table. for some reason it had about 900k rows in it, which was causing all sorts of issues.
2. truncate the sidebar table. there was some kind of change and it made the blog complain
3. rm the public/stylesheets/theme/*.css files.. for some reason it wasn’t updating the cache
i think it is working now..
Posted in General | Tags typo, upgrade | 2 comments
Posted by Ian Holsman
Tue, 01 Jan 2008 21:47:00 GMT
A mother was caught street racing with her two young children in her car in Sydney’s inner west last night, police said.
Source: The Age
Posted in General | Tags wtf | no comments