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YSlow is a Firefox extension that works with Firebug to grade your web pages’ performance and gives you advice on how to fix any problems. Awesome. It has JSLint built into it too. Via Arun (IRL).
The company I work for was featured on a short ‘Surf Time‘ segment on Channel NewsAsia’s TV channel. Catch the Bezurk Surf Time video on YouTube.
One of the things us ex-Apache httpd or ex-Lighttpd users have to get used to when installing nginx is how there isn’t built-in FastCGI support for process spawning. While these means nginx is more lightweight and faster, it does mean that you have to manage your FastCGI processes yourself.Having just upgraded to Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, I set to installing nginx and tried …
The Rails Envy guys have come up with a spoof of the Mac versus PC commercials. Yes, it’s Rails vs Java. Go watch it or catch it straight on YouTube.
Some of the latest Firefox 3 aka Minefield trunk builds include Growl integration! This is probably a non-event for anyone other than Mac users, but hey Growl notifications without needing …
It’s been ages (well, almost 2 years, but that’s a lifetime in Internet time) since Firefox Secrets was published and I figured I should probably live up to being the “Firefox book” guy (in Singapore). I’m gonna start posting Firefox tips and pointers at least twice a week (hopefully I don’t run out of material!) And instead of using the …
Just noticed an insidious “bug” in MySQL when you use “AND”s instead of commas to separate the fields you are updating in your SET clause. Being a little rusty in SQL, I entered something like the query below while trying to make a quick fix to some records:UPDATE charactersSET alignment = 'Neutral Evil'AND last_name = 'Majere'WHERE first_name = …
A GoogleAlert (not the Google Alert) email arrived in my inbox today alerting me to the Firefox Secrets entry on Google Book Search (that’s a book I wrote, for the uninitiated). It’s listed as a limited preview so only the first few pages of each chapter are available. If you’re interested in previewing a Firefox book circa 2005 (virtually the Mesozoic ages …
In case anyone is wondering about the pause in Rails 2.0 - a feature a day posts, yes, I know, I’ve not been writing any posts for a week or so. I’ll be posting more actively again from tomorrow - just taking a short break due to general lethargy these few days. And submitting patches ...
Just a quick one - seems like Rails 2.0 has been tagged for release.Expect a post on weblog.rubyonrails.com soon.
Jeanne d’Arc is a great little SRPG I’m enjoying right now - I don’t even want to start Final Fantasy Tactics until after I’ve completed Jeanne d’Arc.I have a Nintendo DS Lite as well and I have to say that I’m more of a PSP gamer where portable consoles are concerned. There just weren’t that ...
jQuery 1.2 was released yesterday and while it’s unfortunate that it doesn’t work with some of the fantastic jQuery plugins I am already using, there’re some really cool new features. In particular (this is my favorite), built-in cross-domain script loading via the getScript is just too convenient.This would be awesome for loading heavy scripts later ...
Business 2.0 recently published an article on the world’s hottest startups outside the US and Bezurk was picked. Nice to know that ;)
Just in case anyone runs into this problem (which, I might add, would probably go away when either the portfile is updated or the source mirror fixes the problem) while installing ImageMagick via MacPorts…While trying to install Rmagick on my spanking, new, glossy, kakkoii MacBook, MacPorts reported a checksum error with the ImageMagick source tarball:Target …
Got an email today that disputed web page sizes I reported (diplomatically telling me to get my facts right):Regarding the size, if you save the homepage as webpage complete you can get the size of the iframes files individually.<teenage-angst>Ick… Learn to use Firebug or a Web Page Analyzer. Or anything else that does better than saving the page from a web …
Jeremy Kemper (aka bitsweat) committed a very useful tool into the Rails trunk not too long ago: a request profiler! It’s a human-friendly wrapper script around the ruby-prof library, a nice ruby code profiler, that lets you run multiple requests against a URI in your application and get a detailed code profile report in text ...
Now that Rails 2.0 has been baked to near-perfection, I’m sure all you Rubyists with Rails applications are considering updating or have already updated your applications to be Rails 2.0-compatible. And you’ve probably already pored through the massive list of new features and changes in Rails 2.0 or seen it on Ryan Daigle’s Scraps. Ryan ...
Got an email not too long ago from Working With Rails (my profile) entitled “WWR September Hackfest Winner - Congrats!”, and almost deleted it thinking it was spam. I read it in the end (after all, how often do you see spam with “Rails” in the subject title), and turns out that my recent patches ...
I’ve never actually explored log rotation tools in Linux and merely knew of the existence of logrotate and left it at that until log sizes really became a problem. Turns out logrotate is amazingly easy to configure, and thanks to this Logrotate and Mongrel blog post by Corey Donohoe I have it setup for my ...
Read the bug fix announcement. Upgrade! This was causing extremely puzzling crashes in Safari on Macs (pre-Safari 3 beta) on one of our applications and I’m glad (in some ways) that the problem lay with the Prototype library.
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