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Firefox Extensions for Web Developers

March 8th, 2007

I prefer Safari for my casual web browsing on the Mac, but for web development, nothing beats Firefox. (Firefox beats IE hands down on Windows.) Firefox’s openness and the Firefox plugin architecture means that there is little that you cannot find out about a web page with a Firefox add-on. I’ve tried [...]

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Faster Page Loading

October 31st, 2006

Google engineer Aaron Hopkins wrote a good article on page loading times (via Harry). He talks about the impact of AJAX on page load times, focusing on connection limits, latency and the large number of external objects on your typical AJAX page. He offers a variety of tips on improving page [...]

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Knocked off the internet, a story of Windows and Macintosh

March 15th, 2005

This weekend the internal modem in my Mac died. Living in a rural area, I am a dialup user. Let me say that getting unexpectedly disconnected from the internet is very traumatic.
I’ve been following an iterative development cycle where I deploy to my client’s site every Friday. (My old ERP colleagues would [...]

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