Tuesday, March 20, 2007

My first painting



Sambata aceasta am pictat si asta dupa 10 ani! Prima data cand am pictat pe panza si folosind culori de ulei. Chiar a fost placut ... un sentiment pe care il uitasem demult. Ce am pictat? ... cum se vede mai sus... un mar (cum bate soarele din dreapta). Are 2 greseli destul de mari (in ochii mei), dar mi se pare o treaba bunicica pt inceput!

--- english ---
This Saturday I painted and this after 10 years! It's the first time when I use oil colors and real canvas. It was nicy ... a feeling that I have forgotten for a long time. What did I paint?! ... well look up... a small apple (with light and shadow). It does have 2 big mistakes, but I think it's a good work for the beginning!

--- dutch ---
Deze Zaterdag ik heb geschilderd en dit na 10 jaar! Het is de eerste keer dat waneer ik oliekleuren en op canvas geschildered. Het was leuke ... een gevoel dat ik voor een lange tijd heb vergeten. Wat heb ik geschilderd? ... kijk omhoog ... een klein apple (met licht en shaduw). Het heeft 2 grote fouten, maar ik denk dat het is een goed werk voor de begin!

Thursday, March 08, 2007

The 80/20 Rule

"40-60% of Yahoo!’s users have an empty cache experience and ~20% of all page views are done with an empty cache." - says a yahoo research.
This is a shocking conclusion: if ~20% views are done with empty cache then definitely we should pay more attention on not having to0 many HTTP round-trips in a page. Easy to say and... to do (if you think a bit more).
Ok, now let's assume you have structured your front-end in a maintenable way and more: using static includes, you've managed to have just a few HTTP request(1 html, 1 main.css - huge one (as it statically include other css files), 1 javascript - a bug one and 5 images) , but what do you do with the user experience? [trick situation, isn't it?]
If you have a nice roll-over horizontal menu (nicely created with lists and css), an end-user with a slow connection, will see first the menu ordered in a normal list and after a few milisec the list turns into a nice menu => not a nice user-experience!!! My 2 cents: load you menu.css first and then the main.css...