In the first few articles of this series, we discussed key performance indicators and how to determine the right KPIs for your online campaign.
Optimizing Your Asp.Net Pages for Faster Loading and Better Performance
If you read all of the websites dedicated to Asp.Net you will inevitably read about the wonders of the DataGrid, DataList, and Repeater controls. While each of these has its place, if you are only displaying data there is a much faster and more efficient means to do so.
Employee Performance Reviews Dealing With Disagreements
What do you do when an employee disagrees with something you’ve written on their performance review? How can you prepare for this and deal with it effectively?
Business Intelligence : Accelerate Your Business Performance
Business intelligence is the process of gathering information from the business. The gathered business information is transformed into knowledge using business intelligence.
PR Performance You Should Expect
As a business, non-profit, government agency or association manager, one way or the other (and sooner or later), you’ll be paying for some kind of public relations results.
Performance Issues For WMF
Microsoft recently faced a tough challenge, dealing with the “zero-day” exploit. This past week they released a fix early instead of on the standard patch Tuesday in order to alleviate the fears of users around the world. Over the weekend, another problem with the WMF turned up.
Measuring and Improving the Performance of a Website
Traditional business managers and economic strategists have always had at their disposal a variety of methods for measuring and evaluating the degree of success of business objectives.
7 Performance Tactics for CEOs
Buckling under the weight of chronic corporate restructuring, and frustrated by performers who don’t respond to carefully crafted strategic plans, high level executive leaders are being confronted by a growing performance gap between what needs to get done and what gets done.
Performance Improvements in Flash Player 8
Maybe it’s not as sexy as alpha video or a drop-shadow filter effect but the improved performance of Macromedia Flash Player 8 is a feature you can immediately benefit from-without doing a thing.
High-Performance Graphics in Flash 8
Early this year, I was inspired to create an experimental piece called varicose-g. Varicose-g uses a simple branching algorithm paired with the drawing API to draw an organic vein network. In Flash Player 7, the experiment ran slowly, and I was forced to dynamically clear older veins to reduce the graphic compositing overhead. This limited the generative quality of the experiment and reduced the complexity of the veins I could draw.
With the release of Flash Player 8, I was able to make a number of updates that significantly increased the performance, complexity, and visual interest of the piece. Check it out (requires Flash Player 8):
This article focuses on those changes, including the use of a custom bitmap caching routine, blurring remnant veins, and applying color adjustments. You can download the source code for this experiment in the Requirements section.