Posts Tagged ‘ Programming ’

The W3C has been busy: web gems of the future

After reading a very cool post on InfoQ about current issues with asynchronous communication between browser and server, I looked into the HTML 5 WebSockets specification and it’s really very cool! Yes, people seem to be getting most excited about offline web-apps,  client-side structured storage in HTML 5, but a bi-directional socket between client and [ READ MORE ]

Strings vs. refernces: optimizing object-property identifiers in JavaScript?

Am I crazy or is it inefficient to use strings as object-property identifiers for JavaScript objects? panda = {"bamboo": 123, "tree": "Hello, there!", "curry": "Noo" + "dle"} Since each of the object identifiers is an actual string and not a reference, I feel like it should be more memory-efficient to do it this way: panda [ READ MORE ]

In search of filesystem, the ultimate

Even though I’m most fascinated by different programming languages, filesystems might be a close second. Kevin Bowling wrote a great piece on different filesystems in Linux and covered the basics like ext2-3, ReiserFS-3, JFS and the more modern ones like XFS (my current fav). Still, the most interesting is his discussion of “nextgen” filesystems like [ READ MORE ]

Kernel-level VM for languages?

I don’t know if this is a good idea or not, but it does make me wonder. There are all of these excellent virtual machine projects and architectures out there but they are mostly in userspace. The few that aren’t are geared specifically towards virtualizing operating systems. It occured to me that something useful might [ READ MORE ]

Squeak without an OS: I don’t get it

Caught wind of a neat sort of project from OSNews about a project called SqueakNOS which seeks to implement the Smalltalk programming language as close to the bare metal as possible, i.e., without an operating system. It’s not that the real Squeak isn’t cool, but might this be somewhere along the same lines as Movitz [ READ MORE ]

Making things happen with the JOLIE programming language

I caught this really interesting interview over at the KDE news site which talks about a programming language called JOLIE which is used for what seems to be called service-oriented computing. Basically, it seems the admirable aim is to use JOLIE to increase compatibility by replacing inter-application frameworks like DCOP, DCOM and D-Bus. From the [ READ MORE ]

Ubiquity search command tutorial

After enjoying using and developing for Ubiquity a great deal, I wanted to provided a brief howto for those wishing to get into Ubiquity command development. I wrote this after reading the command author tutorial (which you *must* read) and heavily consulting the source of the commands included in Ubiquity by default (which you *should* [ READ MORE ]

Facebook search for Ubiquity

I recently mentioned Ubiquity, Firefox’s new experimental command line for the browser. Anyway, I was tinkering about with the command author tutorial after the upgrade to 0.11 and browsing the source of the included commands when I decided to try my hand at authoring my own command. After messing about with some of the basics [ READ MORE ]

Google releases new web browser called Chrome

Even after Google agreed to continue funding the overwhelming majority of Mozilla’s operating budget for another three years, they decided to be absolutely crazy and release their own browser.  It’s called Chrome and it’s actually really cool. The official announcement on the Google Blog is a little bit scarce on details but it does have [ READ MORE ]

Firefox to get crazy JavaScript speed increase

In a bit of really exciting news, I caught on to some news from the Mozilla world that future versions of Firefox will bring huge speedups for JavaScript execution. Ars Technica has a fantastic writeup on it and Reuven Lerner wrote a nice summary of things over at OStatic. Also, one of the Mozillazine blogs [ READ MORE ]

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Jonathan E. Magen is a passionate developer who loves cooking and writing clean code. Star Trek is cool, too. Also, books. Many things are actually really great and Jonathan likes them as well.

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