By Ryan on April 22, 2010
Here’s the script. “Hey Ry, Firefox crashed again!” “What were you on?” “I was on Farmville…” “So you’re on Facebook using Flash. You’re asking for trouble…” That’s how it goes with my parents every so often. They love Facebook and the games, but they hate when Firefox crashes on them. I’ve attempted to explain the [...]
Posted in Abstract | Tagged facebook, Javascript, slow, speed |
By Ryan on June 28, 2009
One thing I’ve heard a couple of times in either a trac ticket or in a forum thread is that we should all switch over to a decrement-style loop. Why? Simply because it’s faster. (We’ll ignore the time it takes to realize that you can actually loop down to zero.) I’ve wondered if it really [...]
Posted in Browsers, Java, Javascript | Tagged Browsers, decrement, increment, Java, Javascript, loop, speed |
By Ryan on January 4, 2009
Today my father and I were a bit bored so we thought we’d try out WPA. We though we’d try since last Monday we setup two wireless networks with WPA instead of WEP. We thought it was going to be fool-proof and effortlessly easy. It wasn’t that way for us. We changed over with ease [...]
Posted in Reviews | Tagged network, slow, sluggish, speed, wep, wireless, wpa |