Archive for August, 2007

PHP is an Auto-Mountian Bike

After someone posted this article to the dZone site they were quick to spot that it missed one crucial language from the list: PHP. So here’s my take on what PHP would be like if it was a car: PHP was a mountian bike that got crow barred into car-dom.  Its had a lawn mower [...]

Firebug for the Impatient

I installed Firebug a long while back and didn’t think much of it. Granted I never read the docs or even the description. I like to just try things out and if I don’t figure it in 10 seconds flat it normally gets ignored. Unfortunately that meant I missed an absolute goldmine and looked a [...]

Mind Mapping

I’ve been using mind maps now for well over 10 years on and off.  It started off from just the general spider diagrams I used at school to the elaborate, colourful drawings and more recently the online or application based maps such as Mind Manager or Mind Meister. One thing I’ve come to realise in [...]

Y Your Pages Are Slow

Firebug already comes with solid profiling built in showing times, averages and call frequency for files but Yahoo have now released a plugin for Firebug (yes Firebug) that gives even greater detail on page performance and rates it based on Yahoo’s own performance criteria.You can grab the addon from the Firefox addons site (you’ll need [...]