Planet Mozilla
When the AJAX wave came in 2005 when Jesse James Garrett coined the term and then everyone wanted it, one of the major shortcomings was that dynamic updates of only portions of a web page lead to inconsistent history handling and back/forward navigation…
3 August 2011Planet Mozilla
I’ve been thinking a bunch about platforms lately, and how they’re evolving very very quickly. Generally, there are two categories of thing that people talk about as platforms. Traditionally, they’ve been computer operating systems: Windows, OS X & Linux,…
31 July 2011Slashdot
DeviceGuru writes "DeviceGuru's 10-inch tablet smackdown pits Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 against Apple's iPad 2. At price parity the iPad 2 is probably a better bet for the average user since it's a more stable, near-perfect device with a rich assortment…
31 July 2011MySQL Performance Blog
(this is cross-post from https://www.percona.com/blog/) While PCI-e Flash cards show great performance, I am often asked about alternatives, as price for PCI-e cards is still significant and not acceptable for small companies and startups. Intel 320 SSD…
30 July 2011Planet Debian
What should start from /etc/rcS.d/ in Debian? - almost nothing In the Debian boot system, several packages include scripts that are started from /etc/rcS.d/. In fact, there is a bite more of them than make sense, and this causes a few problems. What…
30 July 2011Planet Mozilla
Day 3. Let's get geek! Dashboard 3: Star Wars! The first time I showed it to the team internally most of them said "There's no such Jedi!" in a very offended way! Bottom line, we did it cause we wanted to! It really shows that BI doesn't always…
29 July 2011Macworld
As you acquire more and more music, movies, TV shows, podcasts, apps, and books, it becomes increasingly difficult -- or, more likely, impossible -- to fit your entire iTunes library on your iPod, iPhone, or iPad. Kirk McElhearn offers some advice on how…
29 July 2011MacOSXHints.com
Entering accented characters while using *any* keyboard layout is easier than ever, similar to using iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. Previously, to enter letters like é, ñ, ö, you had to learn one of several hints: option-key combinations, use the…
29 July 2011MySQL Performance Blog
One common theme in the questions our MySQL Support customers ask is MySQL Replication Lag. The story is typically along the lines everything is same as before and for some unknown reason the slave is started to lag and not catching up any more. I always…
29 July 2011LWN.net
The H reports on the introduction of UnQL (UNstructured Query Language, pronounced "Uncle"), which is meant to be the SQL of the NoSQL movement. "CouchDB creator Damien Katz and SQLite creator Richard Hipp have been working on UnQL to create a higher…
29 July 2011