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WebWait Updated

April 14th, 2010 · 4 Comments · SoftwareDev

One of the projects I wanted to work on in my time off was WebWait.

It finally does what I wanted it to do all along: Permanently record benchmarks. You can get a unique URL for each benchmarking session you run by hitting Save. Funny – WebWait was running as a Rails app for several years, [...]

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WebWait Two Point Oh

July 25th, 2009 · 5 Comments · SoftwareDev

I’m pleased to announce a major upgrade to WebWait, the first big upgrade since I launched the site 2.5 years ago. It’s based on watching how people are using it, talking about it, and sending me direct feedback about it. Thanks to all who have provided feedback.

The new features are:

Multiple sites You can [...]

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WebWait in the Wild

December 11th, 2008 · 1 Comment · HumansAndTech, SoftwareDev

I haven’t blogged about WebWait since launching it almost two years ago. But it’s been quietly growing into quite a pretty well known site among certain communities in various languages. What I like seeing is people are actually getting value from it…it’s not just a novelty, but a tool for them. Here are some examples.

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Time Your Website with WebWait.com

February 12th, 2007 · 6 Comments · SoftwareDev

Update (2 days later): The site’s been popular – 10k+ views yesterday. Hit Delicious Popular and somehow got caught up in the German blogosphere, the greatest source of hits. Technorati it. There’s a good discussion in Ajaxian of the strengths and weaknesses of this technique. As with AjaxPatterns, which also reached Delicious Popular, it failed [...]

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