Tuesday, 16 October 2007

Smarky on Flock

Smarky runs in Firefox (see Smarky Screenshots), but I have just tested it with the latest Flock (1.0 RC1) and was pleased to see it work there without a hitch!

If you don't know what Flock is, go to flock.com now.
Posted by otis at 2:48 AM in News & Announcements

Smarky Screenshots

About 5 months ago Smarky Went Live. Since then John, Smarky's author, has added a lot of new and exciting functionality to it. The following two screenshots (click to enlarge) show just some of the nice functionality:

Smarky is an excellent Firefox add-on that lets you manage your Simpy bookmarks in Firefox from a sidebar or toolbar and synchronizes them with your bookmarks in Simpy. It also has a super quick search dialog, so you can locate your bookmarks quickly without leaving your browser.

If you don't care for the social aspect of Simpy and you just want the benefit of tags and want your browser bookmarks synchronized with Simpy, Smarky is the way to go! It works well even if you use multiple computers. With Smarky you don't even have to come to Simpy.com if you don't want to, actually.

Posted by otis at 2:16 AM in News & Announcements

Friday, 12 October 2007

Snappy Simpy

As readers of this blog know, Simpy has been around for years (open to public since May 2004, to be more precise). Over the years I've shared information about Simpy's technical ups and downs via this blog. Here are some references: After running Simpy for over three years without making any major hardware upgrades, I thought I exhausted pretty much all optimization tricks from my (thin) optimizations book. However, the other day I got an idea for such a simple yet effective optimization, I couldn't believe my three braincells. Yesterday afternoon I implemented it and pushed to production after some testing. It run smoothly all night, and this morning I looked at the results, which I'm including below:

As you can see, the 63-line (including empty lines, comments, etc.) piece of code shaved off...how much is that? It looks like 200-300 milliseconds per request, or about 20-30% improvement in response/performance.

Here is another service's look at the performance increase:

The efficiency ideas came bundled with a new other ideas for several nice, yet relatively easy to implement features, so I'll try to get those done in the coming days and weeks.

Posted by otis at 1:04 PM in News & Announcements
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