Some initial performance tests are in and Google’s Chrome Frame plugin is posting benchmarks 10 times the speed of IE 8 rendering.
I’m already seeing a wave of announcements from Web 2.0 sites that they’re going to support the Chrome Frame plug-in. Many of them had written IE 6/7 off and either didn’t bother trying [...]
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Make IE run 10 times faster
September 24th, 2009 · View Comments · JavaScript, Web
If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Cut Their Heart Out and Replace It
September 22nd, 2009 · View Comments · Web
Google announced Google Chrome Frame. A plug-in for Internet Explorer that completely replaces the IE renderer and JavaScript engine (IE 6, 7 and 8). So everything you see in the browser window is rendered by Chrome. Google plans to puts links to the plug-in on their web apps when an IE user without the plug-in [...]
Super Simple SoapUI Tests
August 4th, 2009 · View Comments · Java, Web
SoapUI 3.0 comes with support for creating web service tests. This is quite easy to do once you understand the concepts.
The first step is to start with an existing SoapUI project. Define the web service calls you’ll be making. The easiest path is simply to import some existing WSDL.
Once you have the web services defined, [...]
Which browser is fastest?
June 26th, 2009 · View Comments · JavaScript, Web
Depends on how you test fastest. Microsoft claims IE is the fastest browser. Everyone else, and I do mean EVERYONE else says it’s the slowest. So how do people test and how do they get the results they spout off?
Here’s the latest – http://www.codexon.com/posts/a-real-benchmark-real-websites-with-chrome-firefox-opera-safari-ie
This test is about rendering time. It doesn’t emphasize JavaScript, it shows [...]
Enterprise Architecture in a Web 2.0 World
April 11th, 2009 · View Comments · Architecture, Web
There’s something very curious to me. While standard thinking is that you need to use “enterprise quality” languages to scale to large loads, the reality is that big Web 2.0 sites scale much, much larger then most enterprise apps and use scripting languages to do it.
So does that mean that “enterprise quality” is a bunch [...]
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Setting up your blog with Google Analytics
April 10th, 2009 · View Comments · Web
I was asked recently how to setup a blog with Google Analytics. Google has made the process extremely easy but I’ll show you step-by-step how it’s done.
1. Create an account with Google Analytics
2. Add a website profile for your blog. Click on the link to Add Website Profile.
3. Enter the information about your blog. Click [...]
What does a REST interface look like?
March 19th, 2009 · View Comments · Web
I run into business developers who don’t know what REST is. REST stands for Representational State Transfer. That’s a complicated phrase for a very simple concept – using HTTP GET/POST/etc. as an API. Even that can be confusing because most people will say, how is that any different from a normal web application? In many [...]
Gravatars
March 2nd, 2009 · View Comments · Ruby, Web
It’s my particular conceit that I’ve been exposed to just about everything under the sun when it comes to computing. And I’m always disabused of this when I dig into an area I never have before.
I never took a deep interest in blogging until recently so I didn’t really know about Feed Burner, Google Webmaster [...]
Lies, damn lies and browser statistics
February 20th, 2009 · View Comments · Web
There’s been talk about Firefox surpassing IE usage. This comes from statistics culled from w3schools.com. w3schools.com is a web development portal and they’ve been tracking visitors to their site for the last five years. January 2009 has Firefox surpassing all versions of IE, at 45.5% for Firefox and 44.8% for IE. Unfortunately this fails to [...]
IE 8 Compatibility
February 19th, 2009 · View Comments · Web
Here’s a story which, while it gets some details wrong, gets the point right.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2067&tag=nl.e589
IE 8 is the first browser from Microsoft that runs in “standards mode”. This means that it doesn’t accept HTML with quirks and non-standard extensions. Ironically, most of those quirks and non-standard extensions were created by Microsoft in older IE [...]
