Content related to coding: PHP, JavaScript, etc.
I’m so excited! Mozilla is hard at work on a new version of your favourite browser and mine, Firefox (3.1), which will incorporate TraceMonkey, a Just-In-Time compiler for JavaScript. What’s the upshot? According to Brendan Eich, the father of JavaScript, and Mozilla’s Chief Technology Officer, an 83% speed boost in JavaScript execution speed; making possible…
I’ve been using, playing and struggling with Windows since version 3.0. Before that, I used pretty much every version of MS-DOS. I’ve poured a lot of my money into Microsoft. I’ve watched them go from enthusiastic techno geeks, to arrogant robber barons. When Vista was announced, I vowed not to donate another dime to the…
Another couple of tweaks to the blog. The first one is transparent to users: I’ve added Google Analytics to the code, so I can tell how many people haven’t visited my pages. The second is near and dear to my heart: I’ve added a favicon. These appear on the address bar and tab of your…
I’m enormously proud to be launching the first tweak to my WordPress theme. Forget the blue. We’re going black and white. “What’s with the picture,” you ask? Here’s a hint. At one point I was thinking of naming this blog “Precious Bodily Fluids”. Too cryptic? Not to worry: I’ll be changing the header pic every…
A friend IMed me asking for info on how to determine an IP’s real-world location. We use MaxMind’s GeoIP product at work, but I figured there’d be an open source version out there. And sure enough, I found the hostIP project, which boasts some pretty cool features in a number of different languages. I’m looking…
Webmasters and web developers have a very intimate relationship with their browsers. All the web developers I know use Firefox because they can customize the browser with an impressive array of extensions, plug-ins and add-ons. It also doesn’t hurt that the browser is open-standards-friendly, and open source.