Month: June 2009
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JavaScript Speeds
The JavaScript engines of popular web browsers vary greatly in performance. The variance in performance is surprising. Running this test: http://celtickane.com/labs/web-browser-javascript-benchmark/ On my laptop, here are my results (lower is better, your results my vary): Safari 4: 128 Firefox 3.5: 233 Camino: 615 IE 7: 1181 IE 7 is almost 10 X slower than Safari…
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Hard Drive Fail
The hard drive in my server failed in a nasty way. So things may be slightly broken for a few more days, while I fix up things one by one. Lessons learned: while backing up your data stuff is important (/var/www, /opt, etc…) DON’T forget to back up things like /etc and the list of…
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3G Card Speeds
3G Card Speed is pretty good here at Logan!
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At Logan
My JetBlue flight to Seattle is delayed a couple of hours so I’m sitting at Logan waiting. I have power and internet (via my 3G card) so I’m pretty happy, all things considered. Things could be much worse. Emma’s sick so I feel bad that I’m leaving now. On the other hand I’m looking forward…
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Why I like jQuery (over Dojo)
With the caveat that I’m not an expert with Dojo/Dojox/Dijit, I’m currently switching a site off of Dojo onto jQuery. I’ve used jQuery on a few other sites, but typically just simple effects type stuff. This site has a lot of AJAX driven stuff going on: AJAX catalog navigation where we replace about 12 elements…
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New Orleans 2009
Emma and I went to New Orleans last week to attend my friends Bryan and Jen’s long overdue wedding. I had been to New Orleans once before, about ten years ago, so it had been a long time, and Emma had never been there before. We stayed at the Sheraton on Canal Street, which is…