Monthly Archives: September 2008

some light friday fun: your youtube four (meme)

(Are you allowed to call it a meme if you’re trying to start one?) 1. Open your fancy Firefox 3 browser. 2. Click on the awesomebar and type in ‘youtube’. 3. Post the first four videos that come up. Here … Continue reading

Posted in Friday Fun, Meme | 12 Comments

automatic code rewriting on the march

Taras has an update on his blog about some of the outparam deletion that he’s been working on. This is a great snippit: Cool part about these patches is that after various outparamdel special-casing and manual cleanup the line count … Continue reading

Posted in Mozilla, Pork | 1 Comment

some light friday fare: better off dead

Posted in Friday Fun, Kicking My Ass | 3 Comments

Meme(me)

Via John. 1. Take a picture of yourself right now. 2. Don’t change your clothes, don’t fix your hair…just take a picture. 3. Post that picture with NO editing. 4. Post these instructions with your picture.

Posted in Meme | 13 Comments

want to learn more about the current financial crisis on wall street?

Then I strongly suggest that you take some time out of your day and listen to this 40 minute episode of fresh air with Michael Greenberger. He talks about the underlying mechanisms in play, why they are so nasty and … Continue reading

Posted in Wall Street | 6 Comments

mobile / arm tracemonkey first numbers

Vlad has been doing some of the integration work to get TraceMonkey working on ARM. He’s posted a first set of performance numbers which are more or less in line with the x86 numbers that were originally posted. Here’s the … Continue reading

Posted in JavaScript, Mobile, Mozilla | 3 Comments

finding the positive message (again)

Lawrence Lessig has a post up about being listed on a Republican web site about Obama. It’s a great little discussion, but I love the closing, which I will quote here: and I was proud to support him from the … Continue reading

Posted in Lessig, Obama, Politics | 6 Comments

the message you should take to your weekend

A quote from a Microsoft guy: “I think that the next 18 months we’re going to see a 100 to 1,000 fold speed increase in JavaScript as Google and the guys at Mozilla are going to kick us all in … Continue reading

Posted in Google Chrome, JavaScript, Microsoft, Mozilla | 9 Comments

performance, chrome, mozilla and tracemonkey

So, V8. Well-hyped. It’s got a cool logo. And many claims are being made about its performance. But it is not the only kid on the block. As we blogged about a couple of weeks ago, Mozilla has been investing … Continue reading

Posted in Google, Google Chrome, JavaScript, Metrics, TraceMonkey, V8 | 17 Comments

initial thoughts on google chrome

Google chrome is public and I thought I would write up some initial thinking on it as it affects the world that I live in. I love what google chrome represents. The work that we’ve been doing inside of the … Continue reading

Posted in Google Chrome, Mozilla | 9 Comments