I’m normally extremely skeptical about installing Windows Beta’s. The last beta version of Windows I installed was Windows 2000, and BSOD’s were the order of the day. The hype machine has been working overtime the last few weeks with everyone singing Windows 7’s praises. It’s faster, it’s stable, it’s what Windows Vista should have been.
One of our clients recently asked us how to get more people to their website and being new to the public website arena myself I embarked on a little journey down the SEO road. SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization and it is exactly that, optimizing your website to generate more hits of greater value.
At Bennetts we’ve often been approached to help out on projects with difficulties, and more often than not we are required to ‘optimize’ the application because of speed related issues. Performance is important, as any user who has waited for some application to give them the data they require will tell you.
Waiting is just not an option. If you had to add up all the time you spend waiting for things to happen on your computer, I think you’d be unpleasantly surprised to find out how much of your life you’ve wasted.
This is a problem for employers as well. If you have a hundred employees who wait on average 15 minutes each day for their programs to respond or websites to be displayed, that’s 25 man hours per day. [Read the rest of this entry...]