The Skater’s Waltz

With the dearth of fresh snow and thinning cover, I usually head for higher altitude terrain.  While pleasantly surprised by the conditions at the Rikert Ski Touring area last weekend, I had a hunch that the cover would be even better on Forest Service 59, which has the advantage of being just a little higher […]…Continue Reading The Skater’s Waltz

Website Improvements #1: Reducing home page load time by 80%

Now that the new www.middlebury.edu site is live, we’ll be making continuous updates to improve the design, interface, and performance of the site. After launching the site, the most obvious area requiring improvement was load time for the homepage. Even on campus, the page would take between 12-15 seconds to fully load. Most of this […]…Continue Reading Website Improvements #1: Reducing home page load time by 80%