Archive for September, 2008

To the Haters of "New Facebook"

I don’t understand; I really don’t. There is a big (growing) movement among the haters. Facebook is getting closer and closer to forcing everyone over to the new layout and phasing out the old one, and they’re becoming more and more frantic. There’s a couple of groups over a million members strong: Petition Against the [...]

Chrome’s V8 vs Firefox’s upcoming TraceMonkey

Score! I found benchmarks of both engines on one of the dev’s blogs. Check out this sweet action, then click through at the bottom for more.

Brendan’s TraceMonkey Update

Please Apple, Please

Go do a YouTube search for “swype demonstration” or “swype tc50″ to see what I’m talking about.
Please, oh please Apple, license this and put it in the next big iPhone 2.5/3.0 software update next year or whenever that’s lined up. As nice as the iPhone software keyboard already is, this is somewhere in the neighborhood [...]

Google Chrome

All the talk Google’s new browser is getting on Twitter is a little dizzying. People have been both terribly excited about it and pooh-pooh’ing it for the past 12(ish) hours that it has been available to the public. It’s not like anyone in this line of work didn’t see it coming, it’s just a little [...]