Monthly Archives: September 2008

jQuery.com – Those Mouse-over Tooltips are BAD

September 6, 2008 – 22:33

jQuery is a good thing. It allows you to minimise the amount of Javascript you write, while maintaining elegance and ease-of-use. jQuery.com has recently relaunched with a brand-new design. Feedback from around the web was initially quite negative due to a bizarre decision by someone who thought it’d be great to apply a ‘rockstar’ ethos [...]

By atc | Posted in Programming, Rant, Technology | Comments (6)

Server Benchmarking Diary – Debian, Apache 2 and MySQL

September 5, 2008 – 20:32

This blog took nearly 7 thousand hits yesterday. At its peak, it took 1.8 thousand an hour. That’s a decent amount of traffic. This was all brought about when I submitted a link to reddit.com regarding a way to crash Google Chrome instantly. Coincidentally, I had spent an hour or so the night before testing [...]

By atc | Posted in Linux, Site News, Technology | Comments (4)

Tasty Google Chrome Bug – So Much For Isolated Tabs/Processes

September 4, 2008 – 08:01

Update: it seems this bug was already reported, but the amusement value seemed to escape most of the web.
The web’s abuzz with talk of Google’s new venture – Chrome. My workplace is no exception; in fact we’ve had numerous discussions about it, spanning from “should we support it” to adoption paths.
One of Chrome’s highlights is [...]

By atc | Posted in Technology, Windows | Comments (12)

Google Maps – Random Finding

September 2, 2008 – 18:22

I saw this image linked on reddit. Not entirely sure what it is, but it sure looks like a missile:

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By atc | Posted in Miscellaneous | Comments (0)