tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48831170460934718712009-02-20T23:25:14.579-08:00A blog from the President of Globat.com Web Hosting.Globathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05625290464392117641noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4883117046093471871.post-77968193730362281692008-02-06T15:09:00.000-08:002008-02-06T15:20:57.735-08:00

I love good webware. Webware is essentially a service or software (lots of time it's open source) that is web-based.I like fast, clean, and well written webware. I've been creating and around it for 10 years and can really appreciate when an interface is well done. I like to take some of that love and channel it in inspiration for Globat software.Right now, my favorites are: 1) Confluence -

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What a great post title. (a la Seth Godin) :-)A great lesson I've learned over the years. Quitting is very important and people that become "the best" know not only how to quit, but when to quit. Now, I'm not talking about quitting your job, but rather quitting anything that is going to hold you back from being "the best". There is a long path between starting something and mastery - and it

Globathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05625290464392117641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4883117046093471871.post-33237641502726795882008-02-01T17:26:00.000-08:002008-02-01T17:48:55.406-08:00

As I'm sure many of you have heard, the PHP Project is taking a direction of making PHP5 their exclusively supported language. PHP4 will not be developed any further. Unlike some other hosts, Globat will continue to support PHP4 to ensure that all your scripts work. PHP5 has a tenancy of not being backwards compatible - especially with certain Open Sorce scripts. We will keep running PHP4 as

Globathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05625290464392117641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4883117046093471871.post-11282557068284727222008-01-30T12:25:00.000-08:002008-01-30T17:07:53.350-08:00

At Globat, we've recently overhauled how the backend of our e-mail system works. Today, we have finished migrating the the last batch of customers. The entire process has been a pleasure and I am happy with the result. Our feeling here is that our customers should never have to worry about their mail being unavailable. Every time a customer clicks refresh to see if an important mail came, it

Globathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05625290464392117641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4883117046093471871.post-23376175624510686252008-01-15T22:47:00.000-08:002008-01-15T22:59:44.924-08:00

My team and I spend a lot of time talking about website performance. I've been doing a lot of research on ways to measure and improve website performance.Globat's entire dev team now runs YSlow. It is based off of the FireBug Firefox extension. It gives us an objective view of how our services are performing as well as getting into the real opportunities for increasing our customers' website

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Think bigger - don't just go for optimizing, shoot for revolutionizing.One of my favorite articles of all time is from the April 2004 issue of the Harvard Business Review. I read it whenever I want to be inspired. I recommend you do the same.The theory the author, Michael Hammer, is presenting is how to create deep change through operational innovation. Hammer writes about some case studies -

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