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Updates on the Blog

Martin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:05:49 +0000

Some of you may not have noticed, but during the last couple days I’ve made a few improvements to the Blog, adding a few links, changing categories, new sections.

Added two buttons to the sidebar to make it easier to follow me on Twitter and RSS.
Changed the RSS feeds to FeedBurner, this way I can analyze the subscribers data with a little bit more detail.
Changed the Bookmark buttons on each post, making it easier to share each item.
Split the categories in different subjects. This way its easier for readers to browse through the subjects that matter for them.
Created different feeds for each category, so the readers can subscribe only to the content they care about.
Created a new section (Page) for questions and answers. I’ve noticed a while ago that several users land on the blog while searching for a specific problem (specially with LoadRunner). Some of them ask questions commenting on a post, but my guess is that most of them just go back to Google. Now these users have a space to ask questions and make their suggestions.

I’m still working on a few new improvements. Expect more soon!

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WordPress supports RSS Cloud now!

Martin — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:20:37 +0000

If you still don’t know, WordPress adopted RSS Cloud (rsscloud.org) for all its blogs today!

RSS, short for Really Simple Syndication, helps you stream all of your news and blog sources into an easy-to-manage RSS reader such as Google Reader . Millions of people use RSS to keep up with Mashable, The New York Times, and even LOLcats.
However, it does have its limitations. The big one is speed. It can take minutes to hours for a blog post to reach the reader through RSS. This has been a big reason why more and more people are turning to real-time services like Twitter and FriendFeed for their news. In the real-time web, delayed news and information just isn’t good enough.
Now WordPress has done something big that eliminates that RSS delay problem and brings WordPress.com’s 7.5 million blogs into real-time, along with any other self-hosted WordPress blog. It has implemented RSSCloud, an RSS element that makes instant syndication of blog posts possible. However, it does have a few obstacles to overcome before your RSS is just like Twitter.

Obviously I already updated the blog to support it too. Now everyone with a compatible RSS Reader can have instant syndication!

Via mashable.com

First result on a Google Search

Martin — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:22:30 +0000

A colleague called me on the IM yesterday with some great news. He was searching for some information on LoadRunner and came out with the following search query:

load runner response server size

Guess which page came as the first result from Google? This very own blog.

Good thing for me that my blog is being quoted by other blogs and growing in popularity. Good thing also for him that didn’t have to go too far to get his answer.

ps.: Yes, I know that this is not a search query that you will come up with every day!