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Pingdom’s Podcast is a show about Internet, web, security, and mobile stuff.
In this show, we talk about the upcoming launch of Apple’s next iPad, whether it be iPad 2S or 3, and what’s been announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
A team of researchers in Australia has managed to create a transistor that is the size of an atom. That’s the smallest transistor ever created. Considering that the single-atom transistor is only 0.1 nanometer in size, the possible applications are mind-boggling.
It will be quite some time before we see the single-atom transistor technology implemented in microprocessors that we use in computers and other devices. But this is such a thrilling development that we wanted to find out how it fits in with how microprocessors have evolved so far.
So here we go, a wild ride from 1971 to today and beyond.
Even the most hardcore Linux fan would admit that their favorite OS has not captured more than a very small market share on personal computers. And that would include us here at Pingdom: all of our engineers and 50% of or our developers are, in fact, running Linux.
Ubuntu has enjoyed great success, and more recently Mint, as well. But Linux desktop OS doesn’t seem to be able to break free and climb above the low single digits in market share.
But that may be changing if the latest numbers are anything to go by.
Did your jaw drop when you first saw the iPhone 4, which was rendered completely in CSS and JavaScript code?
According to the website where you can view the iPhone, it was created with “no images… just 3,395 lines of CSS code and 335 lines of JavaScript code.”
We talked to the creator of this very impressive project, Vasiliy Zubach, to find out more about him, and learn how he actually made all the thousands of line of code work.
Read on to experience the story of the 3,395 lines of CSS3 code.
Who doesn’t like free stuff? We put together a selection of free Linux e-books that you can read, in many cases download, and use as references, or simply to learn something.
The topics range from advanced programming to Java, from GNU to Emacs, from device drivers to the kernel, and much, much more. You don’t have to pay anything to take part of the wealth of knowledge and information available in these e-books.
Read on to check out the 10 free e-books.
Every Friday we bring you a collection of links to places on the web that we find particularly newsworthy, interesting, entertaining, and topical. We try to focus on some particular area or topic each week, but in general we will cover Internet, web development, networking, performance, security, and other geeky topics.
This week we bring you a collection of articles focusing on Big Data and NoSQL.
For blogs and many other types of sites, getting an interaction going with readers is essential. But it would seem that many believe that installing a third-party comment system on a website, something like Disqus, IntenseDebate, or LiveFyre, drags down the site’s speed considerably.
Instead of spurring on debate, discussion, and interaction, a slower site could discourage users to take part, and users could instead end up leaving the site. But is it really the case that adding these comment systems slow down sites?
We put five comment systems to the test and found out that there’s less difference in speed than you might think.
Pingdom’s Podcast is a show about Internet, web, security, and mobile stuff.
In this show, we talk about developing apps for different platforms and the challenges that can bring, Microsoft’s guidance for touch in Windows 8 Metro apps, and if Microsoft will introduce Office for iPad.
Perceptions matter, and the perception of Nokia in the news, on the web, and in the minds of many, is that things aren’t going that well. Even in the Pingdom office, we hear “Nokia is doomed,” but do the numbers support this belief?
Looking at the statistics, Symbian leads the mobile operating system race with just over 30% of web browsing traffic. That’s down slightly from late last year, when we noted that Symbian finished 2011 as the top mobile operating system, with almost 34% of the mobile OS market.
What is even more interesting, however, is that Nokia is also ahead when we look at figures for all the mobile handset vendors. In fact, Nokia is way ahead of Apple, and Android lags far behind.
Pingdom is one of the world’s fastest growing uptime and monitoring companies, measured by number of customers. In our ongoing effort to make the web faster and more reliable, we work proactively to improve our operations.
One such improvement is to register and become a LIR or Local Internet Registry, something pretty special. In fact, there are only 469 Local Internet Registries offering service in Sweden, where we at Pingdom operate from.
Let us explain what this means and how it will help us provide an even better service to our customers.
