Thoughts, pictures, technology and other such nonsense...
TraceMonkey vs SquirrelFish vs V8 - Round 2 - FIGHT!
“Grey skies with limited sunshine” What? Again? Quelle surprise!

“Grey skies with limited sunshine”

What? Again? Quelle surprise!


Safari = “Red Light”  Parcelforce = Fail I wonder if DHL want my business instead…

Safari = “Red Light” 

Parcelforce = Fail

I wonder if DHL want my business instead…


iPhone 2.1 Software Update - Off to a good start :-(

iPhone 2.1 Software Update - Off to a good start :-(


iPhone Software Update 2.1 - Keeping fingers tightly crossed that this is going to bring the 1.x snappiness and robustness back to my iPhone.

iPhone Software Update 2.1 - Keeping fingers tightly crossed that this is going to bring the 1.x snappiness and robustness back to my iPhone.


“And thus Chrome used WebKit, and pretended to be Safari, and WebKit pretended to be KHTML, and KHTML pretended to be Gecko, and all browsers pretended to be Mozilla, and Chrome called itself Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13, and the user agent string was a complete mess, and near useless, and everyone pretended to be everyone else, and confusion abounded.”
— History of the browser user-agent string. Hilarious. (via Daring Fireball)
“The Holy Pictures” - just released new album by Belfast-born DJ turned Hollywood soundtrack composer David Holmes. Incredible mix of styles in there -rock to ambient to electronica - a massive departure from his previous work. “The Ballad of Sarah and Jack”, in memory of his late parents, is quite simply one of the most beautiful pieces of music I’ve heard in a long time.

“The Holy Pictures” - just released new album by Belfast-born DJ turned Hollywood soundtrack composer David Holmes. Incredible mix of styles in there -rock to ambient to electronica - a massive departure from his previous work. “The Ballad of Sarah and Jack”, in memory of his late parents, is quite simply one of the most beautiful pieces of music I’ve heard in a long time.


Tracemonkey

Yet more evidence of why I believe JavaScript is the most important programming language for developers today.

Too much sh*t on the web :-) My favourite drawing from the Google Chrome cartoon.

Too much sh*t on the web :-)

My favourite drawing from the Google Chrome cartoon.


Google’s just announced Chrome browser project has an incredible comic book style explanation of why they’re building another browser. Possibly some of the most amazing visualizations to explain difficult browser concepts - JavaScript performance, sandboxing, security - all explained in a way that even my Mum could understand!

Google’s just announced Chrome browser project has an incredible comic book style explanation of why they’re building another browser. Possibly some of the most amazing visualizations to explain difficult browser concepts - JavaScript performance, sandboxing, security - all explained in a way that even my Mum could understand!