January 14, 2009 at 7:47 pm · Filed under Tumbled
Most notably 1.3 features a new CSS selector engine that speeds up selector functions, and the ability to have ‘Live Events’. Basically this means if you bind a ‘click’ event on an element to a function, and then add more of those elements later, those elements will automatically inherit that binding – no need to rebind it every time. This makes things more efficient.
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December 19, 2008 at 5:24 pm · Filed under Tumbled
Until the day that Moore’s Law completely gives out on us, one thing’s for sure: hardware is cheap — and programmers are expensive.
Jeff Atwood on investing in hardware versus investing in programmers to solve a performance issue.
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December 11, 2008 at 4:50 pm · Filed under Tumbled
Native Client is an open-source research technology for running x86 native code in web applications, with the goal of maintaining the browser neutrality, OS portability, and safety that people expect from web apps.
Google Native Client. Also see the related Google Code Blog post. Sounds very interesting. Thanks Em for sharing on IRC.
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November 17, 2008 at 10:45 pm · Filed under Tumbled
The same design elixir that built the iPod and the iPhone can seep into your own code by some bit-based osmosis.
via InfoWorld. Good article about ‘Why developers prefer Macs’, I think one of the most important points from the article is that now Macs are Intel-based, and now that virtualisation through Parallels or VMware Fusion is becoming more and more stable and fast. This means that with a Mac you can test applications or websites on all platforms – Mac, Linux, Windows, smartphones. Linux and Windows are missing that crucial Mac virtualisation that makes Macs one better for running virtual machines.
The above quote is also a good point, and one I can relate to. When using my MacBook, I feel more inspired to work cleanly and efficiently, it’s something about the user interface and the design of the operating system and the applications available that makes you feel more organised and more inspired to work.
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