January 2010
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“In the 1790s, when the Bill of Rights was ratified, any two people could have a...”
– Whitfield Diffie
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“Buxton, whose warm waters have made thy name famous, perchance I shall visit...”
– Mary, Queen of Scots on her last visit to Buxton
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Quick JavaScript profiling
The text below was posted on my old blog in August, 2008. Since I still use this technique, I think it is worth moving it here.
Sometimes, you need to know how many times a function was executed and how much time did it take. It is not a problem if you have good profiling tools, but sometimes they are not available. A few months ago I was optimizing my code in some very early Fx3 build and the...
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The Seattle Central Library
The Seattle Central Library is one of the best things I saw here, in the United States. Not only it has a pretty large collection of books, its building is very beautiful. The 11-story glass and steel building in downtown Seattle, it has wonderful interior, gets tons of natural light and contains a lot of reading spots with power sockets and free wireless internet. And it is free to use for...
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Possible memory leak in Chrome
If you are writing an extension for Chrome, it is probably not a good idea to log everything since the browser does not have any limit on how many console messages to store.
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My first Chrome extension!
Since Google Chrome for Mac now supports extensions I decided to write one. I called it Tessie Notifier and all it does is display the status of the latest Disqus build. At work, we have special, testing-only machine called Tessie that automatically runs all the tests after each repository commit. It then generates a nice little report page. So my extension loads the page, checks the status and...
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