"We have scoured the Velocity 08 website for interesting material from the conference and have put together this collection of what we consider the best presentation slides on the subject of website performance. If you’re mainly looking for things concerning website performance, this post spares you the work of doing the same." - James Prudente via Bookmarklet
"This morning, DeviceAnywhere announced the Forum Nokia Virtual Develop Lab, which adds support for 40 Nokia handsets to the line-up. S40, S60 - they’ve got the bases covered. At around 16 bucks per hour after the (3-hour?) free trial, it’s not exactly thrifty - but it’s probably a hell of a lot cheaper than buying up 40 Nokia handsets." - James Prudente via Bookmarklet
hard to know what to say about this movie. definitely a watch. the girl is so cute you immediately like her. the cinematography and colors are amazing. the story is good if a little wacky in places. overall i recommend to all but the most conventional movie goers. - James Prudente
"CouchDBX has super simplistic GUI that lets you start and stop (yay) CouchDB and launch Futon, the admin client in your favourite browser. That’s it. CouchDBX is an independent installation, so you can use it even if you have a CouchDB installation on your system, both versions will not interfere (you just can’t run them in parallel)." - James Prudente via Bookmarklet
"Understanding what is and isn't "premature" is what separates senior engineers from junior engineers." - James Prudente via Bookmarklet
Required reading. On a very specific note...I'm not exactly sure the context of his comment "I want every asset I serve to be as cheap to serve as possible allowing me to handle larger and larger spikes." Does that boil down to caching? Take the complex stuff offline and take the bits that can be popular and make them cheap. - Hayes Haugen
I think caching is a way to achieve what he's talking about, super efficient delivery, minimal resource requirements, etc. But, it's not always the best use of resources. A complicated backend/frontend cache mechanism can use more resources that a bunch of flat files. If flat files solve the problem, don't bother with the memcached, etc. - James Prudente
"Microsoft is buying Portugal's MobiComp for an undisclosed amount. Mobicomp is an interesting startup that wrote software to allow backup and restoration of mobile data and mobile posting of content to Web Facebook and other socnets. MobiComp was founded in 2000 and is based in the city of Braga." - James Prudente via Bookmarklet
"Today, I am delighted to announce that I have assigned ownership of the Coherent library to Apple. Naturally, I can’t speak for my employer regarding what future products might include this library, but I can say my hope is that this will ultimately make Coherent a better tool for Web developers." - James Prudente via Bookmarklet
"We sync and optimize cache to bring in a set of your photos stored in the cloud on the Dashwire service and make it super fast to browse through, edit and share. This feature allows us to introduce new things like the ability to upload photos from your computer and have them instantly show up on your phone" - James Prudente via Bookmarklet
"It's all about interaction with your stuff and sharing what you're up to with friends. Dashwire is really an amazing bit of software and for $free it's a no-brainer that it gets a spot of honor on our Mobile devices. Top job gents, top job." - James Prudente via Bookmarklet
Hmm.. $15-30 more for the carbon fiber frame. It looks even cooler, but I think I'd be happy with the all metal one. They both apparently weigh 5 ounces. A Wave, by comparison weighs 8.5 ounces (70% more!). - Kevin Fox
That does look pretty awesome. First time I've seen one. Thanks, folks. Swiss Army Knife of the 21st century... - Kamilah Gill
Just opened my pop for lunch with my CX, it does the rugged manly duties at the office. - James Prudente
The so-called "awesome bar" is junk. That Oldbar extension is aces. - Mark Trapp
about:config and set "browser.urlbar.maxRichResults" to 0 but it's a great feature and I love it - Dobromir Hadzhiev
maxRichResults = 0 removes any sort of completion, which is not what Kevin's looking for. Oldbar will do it, though. - Mark Trapp
it works bothways, not just for the page title btw... - chandoo
@kevin: Have you given it a chance? I found it to be quite useful once I gave it a shot. - nadim
I think it's great. Who needs bookmarks with autocomplete? - Rick Powell
Yeah, give it a chance, both of you may adapt. I was an awesomebar hater once myself. - ⓞnor
The awesomebar was one of the main reasons that I made the pre-release my default browser months ago. - Roger Benningfield
The autocompleter displays previews of my emails in gmail, even when I'm not logged in! Any way to stop it doing that? - Alex Mendes da Costa
there is an extension called something like "OldBar" that will change it back - xxdesmus via twhirl
I wonder when my brain started associating FF with FriendFeed instead of Firefox. :-/ - Erica Baker
It takes a week to get used to the new awesome bar (or better: to be able to use it efficiently), but then you wouldn't want to miss it. - sebmos
I have far, far too many pages whose title starts with 'FriendFeed' but very few URLs. - Kevin Fox
Yeah, I used to hate that autocomplete, but overtime my brain adjusted to fully love it. It took some weeks before I realized I was getting annoyed at Safari for not finding what I was looking for! - felix
Kevin, you gotta remove the FriedFeed from all your titles - bad for SEO! ;) - felix
The awesome bar is like marmite. I've learned to love it - Neil Dunn
Awesome bar is junk because webmasters SPAM titles of their site! Oldbar all the way. I've been using FF3 for more than a month and still find it annoying, because when I type "digital" I don't want to be presented with buy.com just because they have "digital cameras" in the title. Arrrgh - Max Smolev
I ignore it and just type the whole address... mainly because it's not awesome. They need it to be an "option" not the sole feature. - Enrique Gutierrez via twhirl
That's the cool thing about it: Type in the normal Url, and everything works perfectly. But if you find out how to use it more efficiently, you'll love it. I didn't realize a big change in the beginning, until I started to try it out. Now, I search my history through the awesome bar at least 50% of the time, and I love it. It helps me a big deal. Funny thing for Google Docs users: type in "new document", and the page for new documents should pop up. ;) - sebmos
But it doesn't. My standard way of navigating is to type in 'rea' and choose between 'Google Reader' and 'RealClearPolitics'. Now if I type in 'Rea' I get a list of a whole lot of sites that have 'Rea' in their page title, and the two sites I care about are much lower on the list. It works worse for me, and many people who already used the old autocomplete. If you never used the old autocomplete it's probably a lot better. - Kevin Fox
Kevin, you just have to use it a while longer. The sites you visit more frequently will bubble to the top of the list. After you've used it for a while, you'll find that it really is more powerful. (I hated it at first too.) - Brad Lauster
It's great because you can use it either way, it's just a matter of typing the right snippet & picking from the list. Type the right thing and you can usually get a very short list. And it learns when you use things frequently. - Tanath
The green url and the black title are making it hard to parse. If they make the green lighter, it'll be a lot better. - Jing Lim
You can also "search" using multiple terms too. You don't have to keep typing out a URL or title that has too many near matches. - Tanath
"runit is a cross-platform Unix init scheme with service supervision, a replacement for sysvinit, and other init schemes. It runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, MacOSX, Solaris, and can easily be adapted to other Unix operating systems." - James Prudente
"In an alternative scheme called "process supervision", each important process is looked after by a tiny supervising process, which deals with starting and stopping the important process on request, and re-starting it when it exits unexpectedly. Those supervising processes are in turn reliably supervised by other supervising processes, in a hierarchy extending up to the "master" UNIX process with PID 1, typically "init".
(The process supervision pattern is long-established, and is even built into the programming language Erlang, which is used for ultra-reliable telecoms applications.)" - James Prudente
"Apple doesn’t sell ads, it sells hardware. But if the web requires Flash or Silverlight to run, Adobe or Microsoft can either intentionally kill alternative platforms like the Mac (or Linux), or simply make them work so poorly due to their own incompetence that those platforms risk becoming non-viable. Adobe has already proven its incompetence in delivering Flash for the Mac (and really any platform outside of Windows), and I shouldn’t need to recap Microsoft’s historical readiness to destroy anything that isn’t Windows." - James Prudente
Take what Cringly was talking about the other day (apple builds office on the web) mix in safari for window, google dropping its name from gears and other trends like squirrelfish and you start to see whats coming. Microsoft fought hard against allowing online apps to be as powerful and useful as those available on your desktop, but fortunately the horse was already out of the barn. - James Prudente
