An internal Google document from October 2010 provides some information about Google’s strategy for the future of JavaScript. Google will continue to work on improving JavaScript and adding new features to ECMAScript Harmony, but it will also develop a new language called Dash that will try to solve JavaScript’s problems, while offering better performance, the …
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A very handle page to check if flash, etc is up to date – Plugin Check.
I thought I’d evaluate mod_pagespeed. Unfortunately it broke my self-hosted openID login (via phpMyID). So don’t do it.
There are easily half a dozen of factors you need to consider when picking an app server: the choice of the VM, implementation model, performance and memory usage, driver and library availability, community support, and so forth. In other words, it is a complex set of requirements, and no one solution is likely to meet …
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Hardening PHP on linux to increase security is a complex process involving a plethora of settings. A while back I developed a script in order to check for any security settings that were out of place. via idontplaydarts.com | PHP & LAMP Stack Security.
Scrappy is an easy (and hopefully fun) way of scraping, spidering, and/or harvesting information from web pages. Internally Scrappy uses the awesome Web::Scraper and WWW::Mechanize modules so as such Scrappy imports its awesomeness. Scrappy is inspired by the fun and easy-to-use Dancer API. Beyond being a pretty API for WWW::Mechanize::Plugin::Web::Scraper, Scrappy also has its own …
I really like this new Google Labs feature in GMail: As the title suggests, it turns the favicon into biff!