I had 2 proud moments in 2008. I had more, but not as nerdy as this. I had 2 articles of mine published on IBM's Developerworks.
How to speed up webpages and
Twitter and
FriendFeed from the commandline.
Here's the excerpt from "Speeding up webpages"
Not everyone is blessed with a high-speed Internet connection. Even if everyone were, there can be hundreds of reasons why your Web application seems slow and sluggish. In this age of ever-increasing broadband speed, don't think that you shouldn't pay attention to page load times. Shave off valuable seconds of your page load times and even more valuable milliseconds of your request and response times. You'll create a better experience for your visitors.
After reading this article, you will have a better understanding of the basics of Web page load time optimization. You'll also have the tools and knowledge to better identify and judge slow-loading page segments and bottlenecks.
And here's is one from "Twitter and Friendfeed from the commandline"
This article puts two such tools—GNU Wget and cURL—in the spotlight. You learn how to use these two tools to send status updates to the social networking site Twitter without the use of a Twitter desktop application, and how to follow feeds from both Twitter and FriendFeed right from the command line.
Need API details? This article does not delve into the specifics of API use. Both Twitter and FriendFeed have such an API, which is easily accessible through a Representational State Transfer (REST)-ful interface.
Speed up webpages
Twitter and Friendfeed from the commandline
