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The importance of ubiquity

By Scott Barnes
October 23, 2009

I've spent a few years studying the behavioral pattern associated with ubiquity, and I'm surprised at what I've learned along the way. Here right now, I'm going to unload my findings, and it's up to you to keep an open...

Google Chrome - growing up too fast?

By Damien Stolarz
July 9, 2009

These poor web browsers are always saddled with unreasonable expectations. Seems like the moment a new web browser is born, it's proud parents and family tell it "someday you'll grow up to unseat Microsoft..."

Firefox 3.0.2 Fixes Three Mac Specific Issues

By Todd Ogasawara
September 24, 2008

Firefox 3.0.2 is out and had three Mac-specific fixes.

Turbo-charging JavaScript - Trace Trees and V8

By Kurt Cagle
September 21, 2008

Persistence, performance, rich APIs and increasing broadband connectivity are all likely to make a huge difference for this latest generation of browsers, and the quantum improvement of JavaScript capabilities due to Trace Trees and precompiled JavaScript will likely play a major part in that evolution.

Seeking Ubiquity

By Kurt Cagle
September 9, 2008

The command line is perhaps the most fundamental of all user interfaces - at a terminal, a prompt character appears that you can type in a command with zero or more arguments, then press the Return key to evaluate that command. As an interface it has some serious limitations - there are typically few indications about what specifically can be typed into that interface, or the action that will ensue once you do enter the line, but for programmers in particular, the command line is also the foundation on which every other user interface ultimately rests.

Simplifying your Firefox life with Chrome

By Martin Kelley
September 9, 2008

The big secret about the Google Chrome browser is that it's faster in some tests, slower than other. But guess what? As I wrote in my first review, few of us are going to notice any difference. The best part...

C++ for RIA?

By Richard Monson-Haefel
August 21, 2008

Qt is a powerful and surprisingly pervasive fit client technology that could become the next RIA solution for C++ programmers.

Social Networking and the Flock of Canadian Loonies

By Kurt Cagle
August 14, 2008

Flock 2.0 (http://www.flock.com) is a comparatively new browser, based upon Mozilla Firefox, that was designed from the ground up as a Social Networking "application". Designed to cover the major domains within that field - blogging, media manipulation, search, syndication and social community interaction - Flock represents a novel approach of using the browser in a dedicated fashion as both the vehicle and the gateway for devotees of social networking services.

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