Archive for the 'web' Category

Why Watch Server Stats?

Friday, August 3rd, 2007

There are tons of reasons to pay attention to your server stats, but today’s favorite is this:
Your server stats can alert you the myriad ways that bad people are trying to hack into your site and use it for their own purposes. Today’s example comes right out of my server statistics Failed Requests section.

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Video Compression Take-Home Info

Saturday, July 28th, 2007
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Gena Haskett, Robyn Tippins and I presented an Advanced Video Lab at BlogHer today. We touched pretty briefly on video compression before splitting into small workgroups covering storyboarding, lighting on the cheap, and editing tips to help the BlogHers kick ass at videoblogging.
I promised the attendees a handout covering basic video compression settings and a [...]

Custom Color for What We Found

Thursday, March 1st, 2007

I updated the graphics and color scheme for What We Found by using the deadly Color Palette Generator at DeGraeve.com.
To use it, you give it the URL of any image on the web. Then you click the Color-Palette-ify button and it generates both a dull and vibrant palette for you by sampling colors from the [...]

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