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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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Mouse problems with Safari 1.3 after using Expose

April 19th, 2005

I’ve been impressed by the new JavaScript speed of Safari 1.3, but since upgrading to 10.3.9, I’ve started having a problem with using Safari and Expose. After I use Expose to select a Safari window, Mouse events appear to get screwed up:

The cursor does not change to a hand when moving the mouse over [...]

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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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