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Browser Performance - What's Changed with Chrome in the Mix?

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:18:39 GMT

This week Google released their new browser, Chrome. There has been so much buzz about it that it's been deafening. It is seriously amazing how passionate people get about a browser. But let's face it, a browser is likely what most people use more than any other software on their computer now days. I spend so much of my time online. Performance is important to me, just like anyone else. Since Chrome's release, I've spent some time reading performance metrics in an attempt to see past the marketing hype, and I've been pleased with what I've found. Not specifically with Chrome, but with the improvements across the board with many, but certainly not all, browsers.

Scraping, or Programatically Accessing, a Secure Webpage

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:46:11 GMT

There are many secure websites out there that provide useful information but do not have a public API to access it's data. A prime example of this is the LinkedIn website. You might love to gather some info from LinkedIn, but their promise to deliver a public API has yet to come to fruition. The problem is, the pages with all the good data are secure, requiring the user to log in before accessing these pages. Let's say we want to scrape this data from these pages programatically? We need to authenticate to access these pages. We can do that by reusing the authentication cookie from the site that we receive when we log in with a browser.

Why I Am No Longer Supporting IE6

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:46:03 GMT

In the recent relaunch of this site, I created a new custom skin for Subtext. Since this is just a personal site, I threw things together fairly quickly, testing along the way with Firefox3 and IE7. Once I was getting closer to complete, I took a look at my new site in all the usual browsers, including IE6. Ugh, it looked terrible. I gave it some thought and made some decisions about supporting IE6. I'm not going to support it. Not on this site and not on others that I have a say in. I'm not talking about leaving my site unusable for IE6 users - they just won't get as good of an experience. I'm not alone with this decision. Read on to see why I am no longer supporting IE6.

Adventures of adding YahooUI (YUI) to a MVC Site

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:03:02 GMT

nice howto on using YUI (Yahoo UI) Javascript framework with ASP.NET MVC

The Complete Reference for Any jQuery Developer

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:31:02 GMT

If you ever to do something with jQuery, you should find it in this extensive list.