http://pessoal.org/blog Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:50:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's been close to 10 days now with the new iPhone and I wanted to write down my impressions. The bad: Battery life is terrible. I mean, I understand the usual fanboy tactics of saying that the iPhone 3G still has the best battery life among 3G phones, but who the hell ... http://pessoal.org/blog/2008/07/21/iphone-3g-first-impressions/ I've been using pine for a long time now -- I remember it was the default mail client available at my university's computer sciencie department. If I remember correctly, I think it was the first program I ever used in a UNIX system (back in 96?). In any case, after more ... http://pessoal.org/blog/2008/07/09/customizing-the-message-display-layout-in-pine/ Simon Perkins of Simtec Ltd (makers of the HttpWatch plugin for Internet Explorer that I mentioned before) was kind enough to get in touch with me via email about my wishlist for YSlow / HttpWatch / AOL Pagetest. He wasn't familiar with Selenium, but said that it might be possible to ... http://pessoal.org/blog/2008/07/03/follow-up-on-httpwatch-integration-with-selenium/ Bart Jansens documents his experiments with Varnish, a reverse proxy server that is making the rounds as of late. Varnish really needs better documentation. Pragmatic Programmer Screencasts - now with Erlang screencasts that should make it grokking this language a bit easier for newbies. I saw this a few weeks ago, ... http://pessoal.org/blog/2008/06/30/random-interesting-links-4/ Here's one thing that I wish YSlow (or even HTTPWatch or AOL Pagetest) supported: a way to dynamically export the results of the performance grade results. In a perfect world I would run a set of Selenium tests on my development environment, and get access to YSlow's results from the ... http://pessoal.org/blog/2008/06/30/yslow-wishlist-javascript-api-to-export-performance-results/