https://ronaldbradford.com/categories/web-sites/ Recent content in Web Sites on Enterprise Data Architect | Principal Data Strategist | MySQL Subject Matter Expert | Author | Speaker Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Wed, 11 Mar 2015 15:08:41 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/what-is-testing-2015-03-11/ Wed, 11 Mar 2015 15:08:41 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/what-is-testing-2015-03-11/ In software development this is a simple question. What is [the purpose of] testing? If asked to give a one sentence answer what would you say? I have asked this simple question of attendees at many presentations, and also to software developers I have worked with or consulted to. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/improving-performance-a-full-stack-problem-2015-03-06/ Fri, 06 Mar 2015 17:51:48 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/improving-performance-a-full-stack-problem-2015-03-06/ Improving the performance of a web system involves knowledge of how the entire technology stack operates and interacts. There are many simple and common tips that can provide immediate improvements for a website. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/monitoring-mysql-option-2009-10-15/ Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:12:16 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/monitoring-mysql-option-2009-10-15/ My recent poll What alert monitoring do you use? showed 25% of the 58 respondents to bravely state they had no MySQL monitoring. I see 1 in 3, ~33% in my consulting so this is consistent. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/hitcho-top-tech-tips-2009-05-13/ Wed, 13 May 2009 11:52:06 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/hitcho-top-tech-tips-2009-05-13/ I recent visit with old Brisbane friend HiTCHO which I met at the Brisbane MySQL Users Group in 2005, has lead to this cool list of some hardware and software technologies he used that I am now considering or have already implemented or purchased. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/twitter-tips-2009-03-27/ Sat, 28 Mar 2009 01:57:46 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/twitter-tips-2009-03-27/ I have in the past questioned the value of Twitter as an effective business tool, but it continues to defy the trend of inability to bridge the business gap with social media. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/where-is-the-innovation-2008-11-24/ Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:04:36 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/where-is-the-innovation-2008-11-24/ The 2009 MySQL Conference has closed it’s submissions for papers. This year the motto is “Innovation Everywhere”. Last weekend’s Open SQL Camp in Charlottesville, Virginia, we had the chance to talk about the movements in the MySQL ecosystem. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/javascript-helpers-2008-10-13/ Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:36:52 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/javascript-helpers-2008-10-13/ Combined with my old favorites of Dynamic Drive , DHTML Goodies and Brain Jar , I’ve added the following to my list of Javascript sources. Mochikit JQuery https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/it-begins-the-downfall-of-current-web-20-sites-2008-09-28/ Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:10:06 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/it-begins-the-downfall-of-current-web-20-sites-2008-09-28/ The current US financial situation has claimed a victim in the Web 2.0 world — Uber . I’m not sure if this is the first significant name, but it will not be the last site running MySQL where investors will be quick to cut losses and move on. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/brand-identity-with-undesirable-domain-names-2008-09-24/ Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:07:06 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/brand-identity-with-undesirable-domain-names-2008-09-24/ Choosing a domain name for your brand identity is the start. Protecting your domain name by registering for example .net, .org, and the many more extensions is one step in brand identity. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/to-www-or-not-www-2008-09-22/ Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:26:07 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/to-www-or-not-www-2008-09-22/ Domain names historically have been www.example.com , written also with the protocol prefix http://www.example.com , but in reality www. is optional, only example.com is actually needed. www. is technically a sub-domain and sub-domains incur a small penalty in search engine optimization. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/domain-name-trends-2008-09-09/ Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:22:52 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/domain-name-trends-2008-09-09/ It started with del.icio.us/ (which now ironically redirects to http://delicious.com ), and now it’s becoming more the trend to create a domain name with the extension included for effect. With unique . https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/websites-in-review-week-1-2008-08-30/ Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:32:20 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/websites-in-review-week-1-2008-08-30/ I often come across new websites, quite often by accident, or by indirection in links from looking at other details. The Internet is an amazing place, and one could spend all day reading such a variety information and only touch on just a few specific topics. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/interesting-site-of-the-day-2008-08-14/ Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:13:15 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/interesting-site-of-the-day-2008-08-14/ TwitHire – For those employers that both have Twitter accounts and time to advertise a job in 140 characters or less. There should be a website that is devoted to everything based on Twitter. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/finding-exposing-and-referencing-good-material-2008-08-10/ Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:16:53 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/finding-exposing-and-referencing-good-material-2008-08-10/ I came across www.problogger.net by accident. Like many sites and information these days, you simply don’t find via search engines because your normally searching for something specific. I did find it via several levels of hyperlinks. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/extending-application-data-to-the-cloud-2008-08-01/ Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:11:36 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/extending-application-data-to-the-cloud-2008-08-01/ I was one of the invited panel speakers to A panel on Cloud Computing this week in New York. As one of 2 non vendor presenters, it was a great experience to be invited and be involved with vendors. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/facebook-woes-today-2008-07-12/ Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:58:21 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/facebook-woes-today-2008-07-12/ It seems that of late a number of successful community web sites have been experiencing problems in scalability and performance. Today it’s Facebook. Initially I got a “Problem loading page” browser message. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/check-your-spelling-2008-07-10/ Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:20:27 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/check-your-spelling-2008-07-10/ I’ve been Plurking more lately rather then Twittering . I’d like to offer to help out at Twitter if I could find the right person to talk to. I’m no English major, but I do like to ensure my spelling is correct (at least for the bulk of the audience). https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/todays-wicked-cool-site-pingfm-2008-07-05/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:26:50 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/todays-wicked-cool-site-pingfm-2008-07-05/ I posted on my Plurk I wished for an easier way to update my status on social sites such as Facebook , Twitter and Plurk . The answer I got was Ping. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/generating-word-clouds-2008-06-21/ Sat, 21 Jun 2008 04:36:10 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/generating-word-clouds-2008-06-21/ I came across a wicked cool tool at wondle.net . I wanted to create a word cloud for the back of a business card, now I know how. <img src=“http://wordle.net/thumb/wrdl/05557/Ronald_Bradford_About_2"style=“padding:4px;border:1px solid #ddd” /> https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/your-site-unavailable-page-2008-06-20/ Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:10:27 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/your-site-unavailable-page-2008-06-20/ When your site is down what do people see? If overloaded to you respond well or not? For much larger organizations with the infrastructure and DNS management this should be part of your DR strategy. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/screen-recorder-software-for-mac-2008-05-28/ Tue, 27 May 2008 21:19:17 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/screen-recorder-software-for-mac-2008-05-28/ I’ve been researching what software exists for a Mac to produce video like screen recording and audio. Multiple people have recommended Camtasia however this is Windows only. I today with some research came across Jing Project which at first test seems perfect, easy to install, use and even deploy to an integrated Screencast . https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/beyond-blogs-2008-05-26/ Sun, 25 May 2008 23:08:05 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/beyond-blogs-2008-05-26/ I was reading today in a printed magazine Business Week the article Beyond Blogs . It’s unusual these days to actually read on paper what we can find on our online world. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/shareadd-this-buttons-on-sites-2008-04-12/ Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:12:48 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/shareadd-this-buttons-on-sites-2008-04-12/ I’ve noticed a change of buttons lately on sites where you can bookmark/share the relevant information. So I’ve done a cross sample of A Computer Site – www.dell.com , The MySQL Acquirer – www. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/hey-jake-whats-your-problem-2008-04-11/ Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:49:35 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/hey-jake-whats-your-problem-2008-04-11/ So, I’m checking out the upcoming weather for the MySQL Conference for next week, and Yahoo Weather throws me a 404 Not Found error from their own site. Interesting, what I did particularly like was the URL, it had jake/404. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/video-ads-2008-04-11/ Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:26:59 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/video-ads-2008-04-11/ On FaceBook I came across www.videoegg.com . One of the ad providers. They get points for a very creative site. Not convinced about their revenue model possibilities, but after seeing a presentation by LinkStorm at the recent Hatchery VC meeting are CPM based ads on a revival. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/when-is-a-website-useless-2008-04-08/ Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:18:05 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/when-is-a-website-useless-2008-04-08/ Well this is one way. Time Magazine has so much advertising garbage, the page on my Macbook shows only 16 words of meaningful article text on the page. Those being almost rather useless as well: https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/new-addition-to-my-blog-2008-03-30/ Sat, 29 Mar 2008 19:12:54 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/new-addition-to-my-blog-2008-03-30/ You may have noticed some icons besides any web links such as [This][1]. I have added [Snap Shots][2] to my site. I first noticed it on [www.techcrunch.com][3] and after some analysis saw the potential. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/when-technology-just-works-2008-03-30/ Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:54:52 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/when-technology-just-works-2008-03-30/ Today I needed to visit a medical specialist for collection of something. I had to pay $250 as my insurance did not cover. I sent a check as requested however today they had not record of receipt. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-hatchery-july-event-2007-07-16/ Mon, 16 Jul 2007 03:57:12 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-hatchery-july-event-2007-07-16/ Wednesday night I attended my second [Hatchery][1] event. The Hatchery is an opportunity for organizations and clever individuals seeking venture capital to make a proposal in a formal panel process with venture capitalists. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-fobar-of-a-web-20-website-2007-07-16/ Sun, 15 Jul 2007 23:49:11 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-fobar-of-a-web-20-website-2007-07-16/ Web 2.0 is all about community driven content. Recently eBay purchased Stumble Upon for $75 million . There is a problem here. When I first heard of the site, I looked at. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/website-user-plane-2007-07-15/ Sat, 14 Jul 2007 19:50:37 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/website-user-plane-2007-07-15/ I wrote recently about the [Fotolog New Messenger Feature][1]. This uses a product from an AOL company User Plane , software that you can get for free to add to your own website for messenging. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/fotolog-new-messager-feature-2007-07-15/ Sat, 14 Jul 2007 19:42:42 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/fotolog-new-messager-feature-2007-07-15/ Fotolog has released interactive chat yesterday. See Official Fotolog Release . I’ve got four accounts here for my photos. Vehicle Plates ,Cool Vehicle Plates ,Lifes Short Adventure & Arabx So I’m logged on, and I get this popup message like this: https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/truemors-tumors-dribble-2007-06-08/ Thu, 07 Jun 2007 18:04:00 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/truemors-tumors-dribble-2007-06-08/ I was sent this email. _ http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2007/06/by_the_numbers_.html By the Numbers: How I built a Web 2.0, User-Generated Content, Citizen – Journalism, Long-Tail, Social Media Site for $12,107.09 I have had my flatmate talk about it a lot in the past day. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/want-to-hatch-a-great-idea-2007-06-08/ Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:04:02 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/want-to-hatch-a-great-idea-2007-06-08/ I attended The Hatchery tonight. A rather brilliant opportunity for you to pitch your present idea “The Gauntlet”, and get “The Panel” to provide expert advice your friends are not going to tell you. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/ampd-mobile-no-more-2007-06-04/ Sun, 03 Jun 2007 16:08:48 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/ampd-mobile-no-more-2007-06-04/ Announced at the 2007 Conference as MySQL Applications of the Year – #1 in 3G Mobile Entertainment, Amp’d Mobile is no longer the poster boy within the US telecommunications. [Amp’d Mobile Implodes: Burns $360 million, Declares Bankruptcy][1]. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/google-street-view-camera-2007-06-03/ Sat, 02 Jun 2007 22:48:23 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/google-street-view-camera-2007-06-03/ There has been plenty of news about [Google Maps Street View][1] that I blogged about recently. I wanted to know how they do it, well here is how they do it. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-site-stumble-upon-2007-06-03/ Sat, 02 Jun 2007 22:09:56 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-site-stumble-upon-2007-06-03/ This week eBay bought Stumble Upon . Popular names that are also eBay companies include PayPal and Skype for example. It’s rather cool, it lists hot sites that people discover. As if I didn’t have enough to look at. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/got-the-next-great-web-thing-2007-05-27/ Sat, 26 May 2007 18:35:26 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/got-the-next-great-web-thing-2007-05-27/ I joined a new meetup group New York Dot Com Hatchery on advice from my friend Marc. Now only if my schedule keeps in NY for the event I’ll be very much looking forward to going. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/cool-photo-printing-site-2007-05-26/ Sat, 26 May 2007 05:12:28 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/cool-photo-printing-site-2007-05-26/ I just came across Moo as a link from Fotolog . This site gives you the option to get a photo like card on the front, and text on the back. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/website-of-the-day-slideshare-2007-05-21/ Sun, 20 May 2007 18:49:39 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/website-of-the-day-slideshare-2007-05-21/ I came across an interesting site while reading [World’s Best Presentation Contest Winners Announced][1] by [Guy Kawasaki][2] called [SlideShare][3]. It’s a happy medium between the bulk of image sites like Flickr and Yahoo Photos and video sites like Revver and YouTube where you can easily add Text to what you are wanting to say in a Slide Show. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/get-behind-a-new-exciting-site-2007-04-09/ Sun, 08 Apr 2007 16:52:25 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/get-behind-a-new-exciting-site-2007-04-09/ As I write this blog I have over 90 draft blog posts. That’s 9-0. Why do I have so many posts? The main reason is I want to say something, and I’ve either not completed it, or researched it sufficiently to consider the entry complete. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/ny-tech-meetup-2006-12-06/ Wed, 06 Dec 2006 06:08:44 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/ny-tech-meetup-2006-12-06/ Tonight I headed to the NY Tech Meetup organized by the CEO of Meetup and co-founder of Fotolog, the company my friend Frank works for. This forum provided for quick presentations by new NY high tech ventures and other interesting discussions, then enabling further networking between people. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-site-speed-test-2006-09-16/ Sat, 16 Sep 2006 10:05:07 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-site-speed-test-2006-09-16/ Want to know your Internet Connection speed in a real world test? Want a fancy graphical presentation of your internet Speed? SpeedTest.Net has you covered. As you can see that even provide graphics results to can use on your own site. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/websites-meebo-2006-08-11/ Sat, 12 Aug 2006 02:19:32 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/websites-meebo-2006-08-11/ WebSite: www.meebo.com If you use Instant Message (IM), but can’t use within an environment, do it via the web. Way Cool https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-sites-delicious-2006-07-17/ Tue, 18 Jul 2006 06:16:10 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-sites-delicious-2006-07-17/ WebSite: del.icio.us keep your favorite websites, music, books, and more in a place where you can always find them. share your favorites with family, friends, and colleagues. discover new and interesting things by browsing popular & related items. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-sites-instant-media-2006-07-17/ Tue, 18 Jul 2006 06:12:37 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-sites-instant-media-2006-07-17/ WebSite: www.im.com The Leader in Internet TV There’s a new way to watch TV. Our free software delivers shows to your PC. Subscribe to your favorite channels. New shows will appear instantly. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-sites-squarespace-2006-07-17/ Tue, 18 Jul 2006 06:09:58 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-sites-squarespace-2006-07-17/ WebSite: www.squarespace.com What is Squarespace? Squarespace is a great way to publish and manage a web site online. We let you snap together a web site in a flash that will allow you to manage all of your unique content right in one place. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-sites-digg-2006-07-17/ Tue, 18 Jul 2006 06:06:33 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-sites-digg-2006-07-17/ WebSite: www.digg.com Digg is a user driven social content website. Ok, so what the heck does that mean? Well, everything on digg is submitted by the digg user community (that would be you). https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-sites-zimbra-2006-07-17/ Tue, 18 Jul 2006 05:59:20 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-sites-zimbra-2006-07-17/ WebSite: www.zimbra.com Zimbra is an open source server and client technology for next-generation messaging and collaboration. Zimbra delivers innovation for both the administrator and the end-user as well as compatibility with existing infrastructure and applications (both open source and proprietary). https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-sites-cacti-2006-07-17/ Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:08:13 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-sites-cacti-2006-07-17/ WebSite: www.cacti.net Cacti is a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of RRDTool’s data storage and graphing functionality. Cacti provides a fast poller, advanced graph templating, multiple data acquisition methods, and user management features out of the box. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-sites-eyeos-2006-07-17/ Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:05:24 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-sites-eyeos-2006-07-17/ WebSite: www.eyeos.org eyeOS is an Open Source Web Desktop Environment, commonly known as Web Operating System or Web Office. With eyeOS you can be organized, work and have fun anywhere, using your own personalized Web Desktop. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-sites-protopage-2006-07-17/ Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:04:02 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-sites-protopage-2006-07-17/ WebSite: www.protopage.com Dynamic Web Page with graphical feeds and movable windows (like postit notes) https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-sites-rrdtool-2006-07-17/ Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:00:28 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-sites-rrdtool-2006-07-17/ WebSite: oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/ The industry standard data logging and graphing application. Use it to write your custom monitoring shell scripts or create whole applications using its Perl, Python or PHP bindings. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-sites-mysql-2006-07-17/ Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:37:36 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-sites-mysql-2006-07-17/ WebSite: www.mysql.com The world’s most popular open source database. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-sites-nagios-2006-07-17/ Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:31:13 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-sites-nagios-2006-07-17/ WebSite: www.nagios.org Nagios is a host and service monitor designed to inform you of network problems before your clients, end-users or managers do. It has been designed to run under the Linux operating system, but works fine under most *NIX variants as well. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-sites-thumbshots-2006-07-17/ Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:27:59 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-sites-thumbshots-2006-07-17/ WebSite: www.thumbshots.org This site enables you to embed a thumbnail image of a website. Rather cool, except there must be some level of caching for new website requests. This page at the time of saving doesn’t show the thumbshot of the official site.