Agile Development Practices have widely been adopted in R&D Organizations. A core component is Continuous Integration where code changes are continuously integrated and tested to achieve the goal of having “potential shippable code” at the end of every Sprint/Iteration. In order to verify code changes agile team members write Unit or Functional Tests that get [...]
We had quite a number of people showing interest in dynaTrace support for Firefox when we announced the Closed Beta Program. This week we handed out the first build of dynaTrace Ajax Edition for Firefox to a selected number of participants. The goal of the Closed Beta Program is to verify that the implementation delivers [...]
We are using Confluence for both our internal Wiki as well as for our external Community Portal. I just came across a very nasty performance bug in the version we are running on our external system. We run 3.2 and the User Search Feature keeps me waiting several minutes each time I search for users. [...]
Every time I meet-up with web developers, either through a customer engagement or when I am giving a presentation about web performance optimization, I ask this question: Who is using Firefox and who is using Internet Explorer as the main browser? The answer is easy to guess. I hardly ever get any hands raised for [...]
We have received lots of great feedback on our deep dive browser diagnostics support for Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8. The feedback has come both from our community as well as from thought leaders in the broader web 2.0 community such as John Resig, Steve Souders, Stoyan Stefanov, and many more. But the one [...]
We have just released a new Demo Video of dynaTrace AJAX Edition 2.0. It gives a full Walk Through of how to analyze the performance of a web page by using the new Performance Report feature, comparing your results against the Top Alexa pages and also discusses how to use dynaTrace AJAX Edition in an [...]
The dynaTrace AJAX Community has been really active lately – with lots of great forum posts and “discoveries”. As the Community Lead I want to update you about the recent activities as there are several topics that should be interesting for everybody that is interested in Web Performance: Antivirus Software to cause page load times [...]
We are celebrating the first birthday of dynaTrace AJAX Edition with a new version of this deep-dive browser diagnostics tool for Internet Explorer. We just recently reached 20k+ active users and are glad that people like Steve Souders or John Resig endorsed this tool in the last year. Download it here! Thanks for all the [...]
Recently there has been a lot of discussion on the usefulness of current web performance metrics. We all got used to First Impression, onLoad and Fully Loaded time. With dynaTrace Ajax Edition we also provide all this metrics. Joshua Bixby wrote a very good post an why they do not really tell us what we [...]
As the Community Lead for dynaTrace and dynaTrace AJAX I get a lot of similar questions when users first start using dynaTrace. Here is a quick summary of the most frequently asked questions users asked, and problems they reported. This should be useful for all dynaTrace users out there: dynaTrace Registration and Downloads Problem: From [...]
