http://travellperkins.com Text, Pictures, and Video for YOU from ME Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:05:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://travellperkins.com/2008/07/20/things-that-make-you-go-hmmmmmmmmm/ @chrisbrogan Notice that he has a centralized solution. True renewable is not. # @chrisbrogan See you tomorrow man. You been doing well? Looks like things are going well. # Nice crowd at this first session at PodCamp Boston. # HBS does matching for internships for self employed small businesses. ... http://travellperkins.com/2008/07/19/a-day-in-the-life-2008-07-19/ So had a good time with the first day at PodCamp Boston. I need to decide if I'm going to go to the partyfor tonight at 7. I'm a little beat. Below are a few snapshot from the day. http://travellperkins.com/2008/07/19/some-more-photos-from-podcamp-boston/ Have a meal with some friends... http://travellperkins.com/2008/07/19/podcamp-boston/ Engage Challenge your Audience Listen to what.s going on; find the conversations Vendor Relationship Management vs CRM; customers have choice. Who's doing it well? Zappos is doing well. Big brands aren't doing that well. Not going to happen at Ford or GM. Comcast Cares comes up a lot, got to ... http://travellperkins.com/2008/07/19/social-media-best-practices/ I'm listening to Steve Robbins at my first session for the conference. Got up a little late because I went to see a late show of "Wanted". Anyway, Steve is talking about grabbing hold and building a faithful audience. I'll be taking crappy photos all day about the ... http://travellperkins.com/2008/07/19/first-session-at-podcamp-boston/ The contractors finished installing the windows before noon. Very fast and they look great; that much closer to a warm winter. # Cleaning up the distributed widget code. Caching, link correctness, tracking, CSS, vote calc verification. Almost done. # http://travellperkins.com/2008/07/17/a-day-in-the-life-2008-07-17/ Finished first pass at JS/CSS optimizations. The app now performs from 8s loads down to 4s.Wrote compiler for two parameterized dynamic JS. # Going to cleanup and eat.4.5 hours of sleep and back to the grind.Will work on CSS and Avatar optimizations before trying to get outside. # Switching over to ... http://travellperkins.com/2008/07/16/a-day-in-the-life-2008-07-16/ When I think about the problems we are facing in the environment I like to think big picture. The truth is we can directly affect the quality of our rivers,streams, and ground water by switching to safe eco-friendly water soluble detergents. As I run out of the old ... http://travellperkins.com/2008/07/16/switch-to-green-detergents/ Working on using Minify to decrease the amount of request on a page. Even with caching conditional GETs still add to seconds. # Taking a break and visiting TechCrunch. Avoided blog reading today and just coded and did research. Performance and security improvements! # Learned a lot about locking down ... http://travellperkins.com/2008/07/15/a-day-in-the-life-2008-07-15/