Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Engine What?
By: Robert Baskin (Online Director)
So finally we come to the Server header, which I have alluded to previously.
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
It’s the Little Things in Life
By: Robert Baskin (Online Director)
I know I said my next post would have to do with our new Server header that we’re sending back, but I just wanted to get this in while it’s fresh in my mind. And plus, MySQL optimization is always worth talking about!
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
Slice and Dice
By: Robert Baskin (Online Director)
So in my last post, I promised I would write up some of the work we planned to do to improve performance when we had a chance to actually implement the proposed changes. Well, we’ve done quite a bit of work in the past week. I’ll talk about some of the changes and leave some [...]
Friday, April 25th, 2008
The Day the Music Died
By: Robert Baskin (Online Director)
Last Thursday around 8 a.m., I received a phone call from our Online Editor informing me that the Web site was down, and politely asking if I could get it back online as soon as possible. It seems we had been linked to by the Drudge Report (to our story on Aliza Shvarts), and the [...]
Monday, March 31st, 2008
Making the Site Faster
By: Robert Baskin (Online Director)
Last summer, I interned at Yahoo as Backend Engineer for Yahoo News, which was a fantastic experience. While I was there, Yahoo released a product called YSlow, which is a plug-in for Firebug — the most useful Firefox extension ever created. It analyzes Web pages, tells you why they’re slow and how to make them [...]
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
Behind the Scenes of the Crime Map
By: Robert Baskin (Online Director)
On February 19th, we decided to create the Crime Map. We launched it March 3rd, just 13 days later. This is our story.
We decided to retrieve the crimes data from the Yale Police Department daily crime logs. The next task was how to present the data. We knew we wanted a map, and for a [...]
