For those we lost, We will not forget 09/11/2001 “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
— The Continental Congress, July 4, 1776

“The task of statesmanship has always been the re-definition of these rights in terms of a changing and growing social order.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt (Commonwealth Club Address, 1932)

“Roosevelt was wrong! The principles laid down in the Declaration of Independence are the principles of individual liberty. Our unalienable rights, given to us by God are given to us as individuals. Our rights do not come from society or the government, and they cannot be redefined by politicians. The nature of these rights carries with it the implication of individual responsibility, without which we surrender them.”
— Perri Nelson, November 6, 2008

Blogrolling.com server woes

Published Sun, Nov 26 2006 11:00 PM
Technorati Tags: Computers and Internet, Software Development, Blogging

The blogrolling.com servers have gotten less responsive over the last several days. Some of the blogs I read have made note of the problems, complaining that it takes considerable time for their pages to render because of the problems. I've noticed that late at night, when I have the most freedom to read blogs that the servers seem to be at a total standstill.

For my web site, I have a solution to the problem. After looking at the code to fetch the raw feed from blogrolling.com for a given blogroll, I've written an ASP.NET server control that can load a standard blogrolling.com blogroll (I haven't bothered for reciprolls), cache the output, and render it into the sidebar on the server, instead of on the client.

I've plugged this control into my sidebar everywhere I was relying on client-side JavaScript to render my blogrolls. The result appears identical to what was being rendered when I used the client-side scripts, but the pages render considerably faster. I've tried to set a reasonable cache lifetime for the blogrolls on the site, a compromise between picking up recent updates when a blog pings blogrolling.com and ensuring a decent response time on the website.

My web server has a lot more bandwidth available to it than my browser does, so this shouldn't have impacted server response times too much. Besides, when I used the script-based method, every single page load results in over a dozen hits to blogrolling.com. Now, with the blogrolls cached on my server, if page hits come frequently enough (and they do when I'm working on the site at night) the number of hits to blogrolling.com from my website alone should go down.

If anyone knows how to cache data from a web site using PHP and plug it into Wordpress or Blogger blogs, let me know. Some of my friends in the blogosphere could probably benefit from this too.

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Butch responded with:

Perri, did you get the tb?

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