Going Green

7th October 2007 | 0 Comments

I'm slowly rewriting my blog to use ExpressionEngine as the back end. It's going to be a slow process while I transition content from WordPress. And to mark this change I'm switching the design to use green.

Mozilla Developers’ take on Tamarin

7th November 2006 | 0 Comments

By now everyone and their brother should have heard of Adobe's generous donation of their AVM2 to the Mozilla Foundation.

Brendan Eich seems to be extremely excited about the code, I would be too. This should really speed up JavaScript 2.0 adoption in browsers (when the spec is finalized). And since a variety of Firefox's UI features are implemented in JavaScript, it should also help speed up the Firefox.

Frank Hecker has a great post that answers what does this all mean to me.

Overall, I'm really excited about this, but I'm left with a question. With Apollo using WebKit (and JavaScriptCore), will Apple's WebKit project adopt AVM2 too?

Paul Robertson has a nice link roundup too.

Goodbye Slashdot, Hello Digg

14th January 2006 | 0 Comments

Any self respecting geek, nerd, or technophile has probably heard of Slashdot. A site that proudly advertises itself as "News for Nerds." But I for one am getting sick of the stories they offer, many are uninteresting, repeats or just plain old news. After contemplating removing Slashdot from my bookmarks, I ran into Digg. Digg is very similar to Slashdot, but this time the users rate the stories.

Not only does it offer great news, the news is presented nicely and many of the sites’ features are enhanced with AJAX. For example if you really like a story, you can "digg it", which adds that story to a list of stories you dig. This is all done in the background with AJAX. This list also doubles as a custom RSS feed. Now anyone can subscribe to the news that YOU find important. My list can be found here.

Join the Digg revolution.