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Lifehacker’s Browser speed tests: Chrome 10 is a winner

December 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Lifehacker recently conducted a set of tests aimed to measure the speed of IE 9, Firefox 4 Beta, Chrome’s Crankshaft (also known as version 10), and Opera 11 Beta. And overall, it looks like the new version of Chrome is a winner!

Firefox 3.6(!) actually beat Chrome 10 in two areas: memory usage with extensions and without extensions. Chrome 8 beat out Chrome 10 in tab loading, and Opera 11 Beta took the lead in DOM/CSS processing (over Opera 10 and Chrome 10).

See the full article at Lifehacker.com for a detailed analysis.

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15 Google Chrome features you may have missed

December 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Guiding Tech has a great article about Google Chrome and lists 15 features that you may have missed while working with it, or just plain didn’t know about.

Number 16: right-click on a web page and choose Inspect Element. Extremely useful if you’re developing a website, use CSS and want to know what caused your carefully crafted yellow background with blue letters to turn blue with yellow letters…

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iOS Development Code Kitchen

December 9, 2010 By 1 Comment

This Saturday December the 11th LTZ organizes an iOS Development Code Kitchen, hosted by one of LTZ’s chief developers, Mike Ziray. The code kitchen will be held on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, and is free of charge!

Join them in a day-long, hands-on iOS experience. Unfortunately I can’t make it this weekend (we have major maintenance scheduled on our database environment), but I’m looking forward to the next code kitchen.

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DigiTimes reports Foxconn to ship iPad 2 by February 2011

December 9, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Ghostbusters by benyupp

One thing to put on your right-after-christmas wishlist: the iPad 2. Foxconn is rumored to have been notified they will ship Apple’s iPad 2 within 100 days – i.e. by the end of February 2011. Initial shipments should be reaching 400,000-600,000 units.

The iPad 2 will probably sport a front-facing camera to allow FaceTime and other video applications, an improved display copying the Retina Display of the iPhone and iPod, and a lighter body offering better mobility. If Foxconn will indeed start shipping iPad 2′s by February, the official launch will most likely be by April 2011.

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2011 Software Craftsmanship Calendar

December 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment

NimblePros has a 2011 calendar available focused on Software Craftsmanship. The calendar focuses on principals in software development, in the style of the motivational posters.

The 2011 calendar features: Single Responsibility Principle, Dependency Inversion Principle, Common Closure Principle, Common Reuse Principle, Boy Scout Rule, YAGNI, Eliminate Waste, Shipping is a Feature, Don’t Repeat Yourself, Interface Segregation Principle, Liskov Substitution Principle, Open Closed Principle.

Each calendar is $15.95, and quantities are limited!

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