Thursday, December 24, 2009
I have worked on this blog for more than two years. And during that time, I have posted new material to it at least once every few weeks. And I have enjoyed the time that I have spent writing about topics that I have found interesting. However, the time for me to focus on other […]
To follow up on the previous entry that I wrote here, I considered writing about DNS prefetching in the Google Chrome web browser. After writing about Chrome’s JavaScript performance, I thought it might be appropriate to mention that web pages may appear more quickly in Chrome when DNS prefetching is enabled in it. It was […]
Monday, November 16, 2009
Many web pages and web applications rely on JavaScript. That is the reason JavaScript performance in web browsers tends to be considered a high priority by browser vendors. There may be other factors that affect browser performance, as browsers are not simply JavaScript engines. This was mentioned by a senior product manager on the Internet […]
Ever since I started using Google Chrome, I have been very impressed with its speed. I wondered what it is about this web browser that makes it as fast and efficient as it is. I decided to do some research on what makes it faster than other browsers that I have used. I have read […]
I sometimes come across informative explanations of concepts from other bloggers. Sometimes these explanations are more entertaining than I would ever be able to make them. I sometimes write explanations of concepts here and I try to present them in a way that will make readers interested in reading them. I also sometimes critique explanations […]
Monday, September 14, 2009
Those who have read my reviews of parts of the second edition of “Hacking: The Art of Exploitation” by Jon Erickson may not be surprised to see that I am continuing this series of reviews of sections of that book. At the end of my review of the third chapter of that book, I mentioned […]
When users of Gmail are asked why they prefer to use Gmail, they may give many different answers. Some Gmail users might say that they like how Gmail offers a large amount of storage space. Some of them may use Gmail because of its spam filtering capabilities. Some of them like the features that it […]
Previously, I had not found that I needed to post anything to this blog that was up to the minute. And I previously never found that I needed to post anything that was 140 characters in length or less. For these reasons, I never set up an account on Twitter. I could have used a […]
I was quite busy shortly before version 3.5 of the Mozilla Firefox web browser was released. I was unable to take the time needed to ensure that Bookmark Current Tab Set, the extension for Firefox that I wrote, was compatible with this newer version of Firefox. I was unfortunately unable to make this extension compatible […]
URL shortening services such as TinyURL.com have been in existence for years. These services that are used for creating shorter versions of long URLs have been considered useful for a long time. Now that micro-blogging services such as Twitter are often used, and because some of these services enforce a limit of 140 characters per […]