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Improving Web Services (Part II) 18 May 2013 | 04:08 am
Last year I wrote about how we improved web server performance with some fairly small changes, and about how I keep an eye on these metrics with reports I create analyzing my web server logs with Micr...
Using Log Parser to Extract User Agents From Web Log Files 1 Apr 2013 | 04:40 am
I've been meaning to write a follow-up (or two...) to my I LOVE LogParser post from a few months ago. The time has finally arrived. Every day I collect and analyze (at least at a high level) somewher...
I LOVE LogParser 6 Oct 2012 | 07:49 am
Recently I wrote about some code improvements we deployed that had a huge impact, causing our web services calls to be answered much quicker and saving us a fair amount of money each month. In that po...
Improving Web Server Performance in a Big Way With Small Changes 6 Oct 2012 | 07:48 am
A week ago today we pushed out some code to our IIS and MS SQL servers that has had a huge impact. In a good way - a very good way. First, a little background. I work for an online video company tha...
Enable Quick Launch in Windows 7, Windows 2008 and 2008 R2 6 Oct 2012 | 07:31 am
Call me old fashioned. Say I'm stuck in the past. Whatever. I just don't like a lot of the things Microsoft has done to the Windows interface/desktop over the years. Every time I get a new compute...
One Guy, Two Blog Posts 6 Oct 2012 | 07:31 am
I'm not much into self-aggrandizement, but WTH, here goes. This evening while watching a disappointing baseball game I wrote a little about what I do at work, which includes overseeing a network of s...
Windows Command Line WhoIs 2 Oct 2012 | 05:30 am
I regularly find myself trying to find the owner of a domain or needing other information, like authoritative name servers. A few command line whois.exe programs exist out there for Windows, but the ...
Who's Yer GoDaddy? GoDaddy DNS Down! 10 Sep 2012 | 11:35 pm
About 2:15 EDT today I began to get alarms from some of my monitoring software that it "can't resolve hostname to IP address" for a couple of our lesser used domains. So, after a little digging it lo...
Blinc M2 with FM Tuner Review - DO NOT BUY! 1 Sep 2012 | 06:51 am
Enough is enough! I've intended to write this review for some time now, but have neglected. Now is the time. I don't usually do product reviews but this must be said. SPOILER ALERT: DO NOT BUY the ...
Elasticfox Firefox Extension for Amazon EC2 is Now Elasticfox-ec2tag 1 Sep 2012 | 02:00 am
Previously I wrote about a great Amazon AWS management tool, Elasticfox, which is, or was, an extension for Firefox. I started using Elasticfox a few years ago when I started using Amazon's EC2 (Elas...
