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Just a short list of IT experts from around the world on this episode - including some of my home town folks from Minnesota, student test scores in India (AGAIN!), and a pub in the UK closes it's doors and it's web sessions, the caffeine junkies lucked out during a Starbucks outage! James sounds a general warning to all British fashion houses: prepare ye all for the spare commeth!

New innovations around HTML5 and media-rich web sites, ya know those moving pictures you see on the page? Sometimes they are streamed to the client from a massive back-end infrastructure for streaming media. With any hope however, you're listening to this file-based download of a podcast which is not streaming live to you. We talk about optimizations and tools and acceleration and we try really hard to avoid mentioning internet porn.

This episode is formally sponsored by our dear friends at www.soasta.com and www.smartbear.com! Check 'em out!

Let's take a trip around the world on this episode of News of The Damned! We visit impalas in Australia, a muse, a dead monarch and trainsplitting in the UK and then wrapping up with crashing media moguls, the book of Mormon and non-scalable stanardized test sites back here in the USA! BBBhwwwwaaaaaahahahahahahahaaaaaa!

You might think it's a slow time of the year for website outages...given that everyone blew up back in the holidays, but hold on to your jackelopes! We've got McGraw Hill punishing students being in Indiana, Kanye West stomping innocent shoppers with shoe sales and and tourist wannabe's in upstate New York getting huffpost'ed to death. It's a great day for them all to join the PerfBytes News of The Damned! BWaaahaahaahhaaaaaa!

You guys all know that the current HTTP protocol specification is just way too slow - seriously, we need to invent new protocols if we expect to be successful with this whole internet of things stuff. Scott Moore joins us for a great conversation about his recent postings digging deeper into this new HTTP2 re-working of the SPDY protocol from Google. Howard hammers at the ROI statements while James and remain skeptics on this "jackelope" of a protocol innovation.

This episode is formally sponsored by our good friends at www.smartbear.com and www.soasta.com

Web Parts Gone Wild!!! In this episode of PerfBytes Howard and Mark chat with the performance evangelist Andreas Grabner from DynaTrace as we dig deep into the dirty secrets about Microsoft's Sharepoint platform. Whether it's tuning app pools for optimal threading and CPU utilization, or cleaning up those crazy custom list elements, Andreas has tips to help even the most seasoned Sharpoint developer make some improvements! We missed James on this episode due to technical difficulties.

This episode is formally sponsored by our good friends at SOASTA (www.soasta.com) and SmartBear (www.smartbear.com) - check 'em out!

Greetings to all you PerfBytes listeners, Lucifer once again introduces another round of stories about websites crashing and the punishment of innocent end-users. We cover more charitable ticketing websites, Chelsea football, New Orleans tax assessments, college entrance exams and the UK National Lottery! It's all Bwwwwaaaahaahahahahaaahaaaaa!

That's right, there are 10 simple things that every developer should know...about performance, of course! HoCho takes us on a tour of specific things that developer engineers should keep in mind about coding for performance, whether it's about discrete resource handling, memory management, threading or network latency. They should keep a grasp of these basics before they write the first line of code.

No, you are not having deja vu or a reality-bending time distortion - it's true...Princess Kate joins us once again after she crashes the Madderson London website with baby bump #2. And that's not all we've got for ya on this episode, Korea joins the UK and Australia in crashing ticket websites, the UK government bond website takes a dump on aspiring investors and Scout.com appears to have done absolutely nothing to prepare for the crushing load this Spring. Bwwwwaaaahaahahahahaaahaaaaa!