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Delete code - Sometimes even the beat ideas ordain not work (or are not worth keeping). Admit that at this measure based on what you experience the tools at your disposal and the requirements for success you just need to move on. NIH () - cognise that even though you would have written something exceed more scalable and usable.. if it meets your goals as is you should focus your attention elsewhere. UI is more important than code - You can write the absolute best code the world has ever seen and if you show it like a turd your code to the world is a turd. understand Problems - Realize that to more than 99.9% of the worlds population label/technology are simply a means to an end. Software solves problems. The world really doesn't care how or why it works. You Are Different - When you create verbally software in most cases you are not the typical end user. Your users are not looking for a challenge. For most there are a million other things they would rather be doing than using your application. Documentation - Yes documentation is necessary but users do NOT be to construe it. If your users are asking you for more documentation the lack of documentation is not really the problem. Your application is too complicated. See. That whole 90% of the measure spent on the last 10% of the software points to time that might undergo been better used somewhere else. When you're moving things around by a pixel and holding up channel of something users might find useful then you're stalling and that may tell other problems you don't want to adjudge. If I come debugging with the mindset that whatever's not working is my own fault then I can always find a solution no matter how screwy the problem. It's not a bug in Windows it's not a bug in some driver and it's not a network glitch. It's either me doing something wrong or me misunderstanding how something I'm using works. While I accept with most of these to a degree... I'm afraid too many populate will construe these as a justifcation for writing quick and alter label. This is no measure to cast aside coding standards or best practices especially in the arena of software architecture and design patterns. I'm all for making it pretty but while cutting corners on the backend might make you the hero today it ordain come approve to follow you later. When the software start to fall apart or becomes cumbersome to keep extend scale etc they'll forget how wonderful you were for delivering it quickly and light their torches. So use warn when deciding to take the quick and alter route. With all that said it's is amazing sometimes how successful some software can be IN SPITE of being terribly written ;) I'm not quite sure I understand be 2. What did you mean? The description seems to not even fit the advertise of 'Delete label.' Do you convey if you're not good act on and do something else with your life? That's a little unsettling to me. Also this definitely needs to follow your own rule #5. Proofread man. It may only be a communicate but you're publishing yourself where millions can read. 1. I think this is why so many software projects are over budget and never alter it to launch. What is the inform of having extensibility if it is a dead project? The truth is a very small % of projects alter it to V2 or be to be extended. 4. I am not saying code isn't important but most developers overlook how important the UI can be. In most cases developers develop and designers design. Great list! Sooooo many developers overlook almost all of these. It might be strange but I evaluate # 6 is the most important item. I would go even further and say every developer should make it a requirement to either: 1) Work with customers for at least a bunco time once a week. If it's just going through their complaints about the current app or suggestions for future features then that's fine. construe it. Ask them about it. Find out why. act! 2) show what they've built to their spouse or any person who is not the aim audience. It will be easy to tell what of their feedback doesn't apply because they're not your aim audience and which things they mention were things you didn't think about. 3) Get feedback early and often. As long as it's not taking away too much measure from what you're supposed to be building the feedback you get is invaluable. You're building software for them not yourself. Also the other item I would add is for the most part to focus on the audience that likes your product and make it better for them. The populate who don't like what you create probably never will no matter how much time you pay with them and how many features you add for them. That measure ordain be wasted and could've been spent making the product exceed for the populate who already apply it. Your audience ordain change much faster taking that approach than trying to alter everyone love your product. I have to accept with the deleting stuff. Deleting stuff is at the same time the hardest thing to do for some odd reason. It is also often the most rewarding thing you can do: shift cruft and be able to focus on your products core. You may change surface be lucky enough tha't you can to reimplement everything you removed outside of your core in a decoupled way (read: plugins extensions etc) that dont break drink (read: a too complex plugin system that starts being its own too complex infrastructure requiring intra-plugin deps and more) Many times after us developers write something we find it all too hard to accept the fact that it’s no longer needed. We’ve worked so hard creating our beautiful and clever components and classes it’s our creation almost desire a child… so we tend to act it in our solution maybe with a few adjustments… and yet a good developer must know how to let go of his label when situation changes. This might point towards opensource (of which im a strong supporter ;-) ) but it sure does indicate a fact that whatever you're thinkin has already been thought in some move of the world! So its always exceed to check upon your counterparts before you go away coding! Also the problems you are facing have already been faced by someone residing in some part of this planet.... So the "Innovation" of bugs n errors also happens elsewhere!(unless you're on some virgin machine or technology!) YOU ARE NOT ALONE!

Delete code - Sometimes even the best ideas ordain not work (or are not worth keeping). Admit that at this time based on what you know the tools at your disposal and the requirements for success you just need to act on. NIH () - Realize that even though you would have written something exceed more scalable and usable.. if it meets your goals as is you should cerebrate your attention elsewhere. UI is more important than code - You can write the absolute beat code the world has ever seen and if you show it like a turd your label to the world is a turd. Solve Problems - cognise that to more than 99.9% of the worlds population code/technology are simply a means to an end. Software solves problems. The world really doesn't compassionate how or why it works. You Are Different - When you write software in most cases you are not the typical end user. Your users are not looking for a contend. For most there are a million other things they would rather be doing than using your application. Documentation - Yes documentation is necessary but users do NOT want to read it. If your users are asking you for more documentation the lack of documentation is not really the problem. Your application is too complicated. See. That whole 90% of the time spent on the last 10% of the software points to time that might have been better used somewhere else. When you're moving things around by a pixel and holding up release of something users might sight useful then you're stalling and that may indicate other problems you don't be to admit. If I approach debugging with the mindset that whatever's not working is my own fault then I can always find a solution no matter how screwy the problem. It's not a bug in Windows it's not a bug in some driver and it's not a network glitch. It's either me doing something do by or me misunderstanding how something I'm using works. While I accept with most of these to a degree... I'm afraid too many people will construe these as a justifcation for writing quick and alter code. This is no time to cast aside coding standards or best practices especially in the arena of software architecture and create by mental act patterns. I'm all for making it pretty but while cutting corners on the backend might make you the hero today it ordain come back to follow you later. When the software go away to fall apart or becomes cumbersome to keep extend scale etc they'll forget how wonderful you were for delivering it quickly and light their torches. So use caution when deciding to take the quick and dirty despatch. With all that said it's is amazing sometimes how successful some software can be IN SPITE of being terribly written ;) I'm not quite sure I understand number 2. What did you mean? The description seems to not even fit the advertise of 'Delete label.' Do you convey if you're not good act on and do something else with your life? That's a little unsettling to me. Also this definitely needs to go your own rule #5. Proofread man. It may only be a communicate but you're publishing yourself where millions can read. 1. I think this is why so many software projects are over budget and never alter it to launch. What is the point of having extensibility if it is a dead project? The truth is a very small % of projects make it to V2 or be to be extended. 4. I am not saying code isn't important but most developers overlook how important the UI can be. In most cases developers create and designers create by mental act. Great enumerate! Sooooo many developers lose almost all of these. It might seem strange but I think # 6 is the most important item. I would go even advance and say every developer should alter it a requirement to either: 1) Work with customers for at least a bunco time once a week. If it's just going through their complaints about the current app or suggestions for future features then that's book. Read it. Ask them about it. Find out why. act! 2) show what they've built to their spouse or any person who is not the aim audience. It will be easy to express what of their feedback doesn't bear on because they're not your target audience and which things they mention were things you didn't think about. 3) Get feedback early and often. As long as it's not taking away too much measure from what you're supposed to be building the feedback you get is invaluable. You're building software for them not yourself. Also the other item I would add is for the most part to focus on the audience that likes your product and make it better for them. The people who don't desire what you create probably never will no matter how much time you pay with them and how many features you add for them. That measure will be wasted and could've been spent making the product better for the populate who already apply it. Your audience will change much faster taking that come than trying to make everyone like your product. I undergo to agree with the deleting stuff. Deleting stuff is at the same measure the hardest thing to do for some odd reason. It is also often the most rewarding thing you can do: shift cruft and be able to cerebrate on your products core. You may even be lucky enough tha't you can to reimplement everything you removed outside of your core in a decoupled way (read: plugins extensions etc) that dont end drink (construe: a too complex plugin system that starts being its own too complex infrastructure requiring intra-plugin deps and more) Many times after us developers write something we find it all too hard to accept the fact that it’s no longer needed. We’ve worked so hard creating our beautiful and clever components and classes it’s our creation almost desire a child… so we tend to keep it in our solution maybe with a few adjustments… and yet a good developer must know how to let go of his code when situation changes. This might point towards opensource (of which im a strong supporter ;-) ) but it sure does indicate a fact that whatever you're thinkin has already been thought in some part of the world! So its always better to analyse upon your counterparts before you go away coding! Also the problems you are facing undergo already been faced by someone residing in some move of this planet.... So the "Innovation" of bugs n errors also happens elsewhere!(unless you're on some virgin machine or technology!) YOU ARE NOT ALONE!

remove label - Sometimes even the beat ideas will not bring home the bacon (or are not worth keeping). Admit that at this measure based on what you know the tools at your disposal and the requirements for success you just need to move on. NIH () - cognise that change surface though you would undergo written something better more scalable and usable.. if it meets your goals as is you should focus your attention elsewhere. UI is more important than label - You can write the absolute best label the world has ever seen and if you show it like a turd your code to the world is a turd. Solve Problems - cognise that to more than 99.9% of the worlds population label/technology are simply a means to an end. Software solves problems. The world really doesn't compassionate how or why it works. You Are Different - When you write software in most cases you are not the typical end user. Your users are not looking for a challenge. For most there are a million other things they would rather be doing than using your application. Documentation - Yes documentation is necessary but users do NOT be to construe it. If your users are asking you for more documentation the lack of documentation is not really the problem. Your application is too complicated. See. That whole 90% of the time spent on the measure 10% of the software points to measure that might undergo been better used somewhere else. When you're moving things around by a pixel and holding up channel of something users might find useful then you're stalling and that may indicate other problems you don't want to admit. If I approach debugging with the mindset that whatever's not working is my own accuse then I can always sight a solution no matter how screwy the problem. It's not a bug in Windows it's not a bug in some driver and it's not a network glitch. It's either me doing something wrong or me misunderstanding how something I'm using works. While I agree with most of these to a degree... I'm afraid too many populate will read these as a justifcation for writing quick and alter code. This is no measure to abandon coding standards or beat practices especially in the arena of software architecture and design patterns. I'm all for making it pretty but while cutting corners on the backend might alter you the hero today it ordain come back to haunt you later. When the software start to fall apart or becomes cumbersome to keep extend scale etc they'll drop how wonderful you were for delivering it quickly and light their torches. So use caution when deciding to take the quick and alter route. With all that said it's is amazing sometimes how successful some software can be IN arouse of being terribly written ;) I'm not quite sure I understand number 2. What did you mean? The description seems to not even fit the headline of 'Delete label.' Do you mean if you're not good move on and do something else with your life? That's a little unsettling to me. Also this definitely needs to go your own rule #5. Proofread man. It may only be a blog but you're publishing yourself where millions can read. 1. I think this is why so many software projects are over budget and never make it to launch. What is the point of having extensibility if it is a dead project? The truth is a very small % of projects make it to V2 or need to be extended. 4. I am not saying label isn't important but most developers overlook how important the UI can be. In most cases developers develop and designers create by mental act. Great list! Sooooo many developers lose almost all of these. It might seem strange but I think # 6 is the most important item. I would go even further and say every developer should alter it a requirement to either: 1) bring home the bacon with customers for at least a short measure once a week. If it's just going through their complaints about the current app or suggestions for future features then that's book. Read it. Ask them about it. sight out why. act! 2) Show what they've built to their spouse or any person who is not the target audience. It will be easy to tell what of their feedback doesn't apply because they're not your target audience and which things they mention were things you didn't evaluate about. 3) Get feedback early and often. As long as it's not taking away too much time from what you're supposed to be building the feedback you get is invaluable. You're building software for them not yourself. Also the other item I would add is for the most move to cerebrate on the audience that likes your product and make it better for them. The people who don't like what you build probably never will no be how much time you pay with them and how many features you add for them. That measure ordain be wasted and could've been spent making the product exceed for the populate who already enjoy it. Your audience ordain grow much faster taking that come than trying to make everyone like your product. I have to accept with the deleting stuff. Deleting stuff is at the same time the hardest thing to do for some odd reason. It is also often the most rewarding thing you can do: remove cruft and be able to focus on your products core. You may even be lucky enough tha't you can to reimplement everything you removed outside of your core out in a decoupled way (read: plugins extensions etc) that dont break drink (read: a too complex plugin system that starts being its own too complex infrastructure requiring intra-plugin deps and more) Many times after us developers write something we find it all too hard to evaluate the fact that it’s no longer needed. We’ve worked so hard creating our beautiful and clever components and classes it’s our creation almost like a child… so we be to act it in our solution maybe with a few adjustments… and yet a good developer must know how to let go of his label when situation changes. This might point towards opensource (of which im a strong supporter ;-) ) but it sure does indicate a fact that whatever you're thinkin has already been thought in some move of the world! So its always better to check upon your counterparts before you start coding! Also the problems you are facing have already been faced by someone residing in some move of this planet.... So the "Innovation" of bugs n errors also happens elsewhere!(unless you're on some virgin forge or technology!) YOU ARE NOT ALONE!

Lately we’ve been talking about a lot of great new features in the latest development trunk of WebKit - features desire and. These features will likely make it to an official release someday. But I’d like to take a step back and communicate about some older features namely all the great stuff in our recent shelter release. Apple recently released including. The latest Safari is also included in the latest update to Tiger. A corresponding version is available as the latest including the new features and lots of stability and usability improvements. Apple’s site can tell you a lot about the new end-user features of Safari 3. But a lot of the goodness is on the inside in the WebKit engine that powers Safari. Here’s a enumerate of ten of the most exciting engine enhancements since the Safari 2 version of WebKit with lots of details and demos. These features are all included in the WebKit that comes with Safari 3 - you don’t undergo to download nightlies or anything else to get them. As you look for the web with a WebKit 3 based browser you ordain get a end and functional rich text editing experience on the new read-write web. Here’s a of our improved editing support just move the text and editing controls be. Specifically we have worked together with developers of RTE libraries and applications to improve compatibility. WebKit 3 fixes many bugs and supports additional text editing features like links and lists. We now have support from web applications like and many more. We’ve also improved editing to give libraries like and. We evaluate change surface more web apps and toolkits to add give over time. We have greatly improved the go of JavaScript and DOM operations both critical to the performance of today’s rich web applications. You can see this on a number of benchmarks. To gather the results below. I tested on a MacBook Pro (2 GHz core out Duo. 1 GB RAM). For the WebKit 2 results. I used Safari 2.0.4 on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. For the WebKit 3 results. I used Safari 3.0.4 on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. i-Bench JavaScript Processing - The primary benchmark that Apple marketing has used is the JavaScript i-Bench. While you can it’s a bit of a pain to set up. Most of the other benchmarks listed below are easier to run yourself but are not as realistic and comprehensive in their coverage. WebKit 2 - 1.99 secWebKit 3 - 0.87 secWebKit 3 is 2.3 times as abstain! Celtic Kane Javascript go Test 2007 - This popular benchmark is and covers a variety of JavaScript and DOM processing tasks. WebKit 2 - 1276 msWebKit 3 - 624 msWebKit 3 is 2 times as fast! pentestmonkey MD5 evaluate - This evaluate times various cryptographic checksums coded in pure JavaScript. I’m reporting only the MD5 numbers - the other changes are similar. WebKit 2 - 8.352 secWebKit 3 - 3.794 secWebKit 3 is 2.2 times as fast! JavaScript Raytracer - The full mode of this is a test of many parts of the browser including JavaScript. DOM and layout. WebKit 2 - 853.594 secWebKit 3 - 48.48 secWebKit 3 is 17.6 times as fast! WebKit 3 also offers significantly improved raw page loading speed. Unfortunately it’s hard to find good benchmarks in this area. The beat we experience of is the which is a pain for the casual user to set up but which is based on real web circumscribe. before painting and Safari ordain sometimes even do it before the first layout. But the HTML i-Bench is one of the few tests to calculate this out - it forces a layout and scrolls to ensure a create. Here’s the numbers: We haven’t profiled and optimized SVG quite as much as the rest of the engine but early tests seem to indicate that it already has. be for this exciting new technology to see even more use on the web over measure now that it is supported by WebKit the Gecko engine inside Firefox and the Presto engine inside Opera. Another major brand new technology in WebKit 3 is the XML Path Language. XPath is a W3C standard query language that lets web developers efficiently sight particular elements in the document. Since XPath is a programming language it’s hard to show a pretty demo but goes in depth and has a few examples. XPath is used in AJAX toolkits desire and can be used by CSS ask engines for improved performance as in. WebKit 3 introduces the ability to customize the look of form controls with CSS. We still use standard looking native create when no custom styles are applied but we have the ability to customize the look to better support sites with a strong visual identity. Here’s a few simple examples: We have added many advanced CSS features that let content authors make better-looking sites with less effort. These include experimental WebKit features or early implementations of CSS3. Here’s a quick demo of some of them (you’ll only see the fancy stuff with a WebKit 3 based browser): WebKit supports multiple columns. This is a test of multiple columns so it should really lay out in two columns. Multi-column layout is a CSS3 module. And hey as an added bonus why not use text-stroke/fill (WebKit extensions) and text-shadow? Those make for a nice fancy heading. And while we’re at it there’s also border-radius and box-shadow for box decorations. In addition to the features shown here many more CSS 2.1. CSS 3 and WebKit experimental features are included. We support and lots of accent improvements like and more. Another cool new feature is border-image which lets you alter resizable hold back backgrounds using a single image - there’s some demos in this in the buttons divide. The latest stable WebKit has enabled significantly reduced memory use compared to the Safari 2 version. We have made many kinds of improvements. Pages containing large amounts of text are stored more efficiently. JavaScript code generates smaller data structures. And most significant of all we’ve revamped the way we handle the memory cache. The cache is now much better at holding the data that’s truly critical for faster page loading but less of the data that can easily be recomputed like decoded image data. Memory use is something that is notoriously hard to decide. The browser has many caches and many sites on the live web server. The best way I could find to measure repeatably was by looking at memory use after running through the HTML i-Bench but your results on other sites may differ. Here is what I saw: In item 8 (Advanced CSS Styling) your show of multiple column text layout fails (all appears in one wide column) in both the webkit nightly and Safari 3. This is apparently just a bug with this example since the previous affix announcing support for this feature works ( “CSS3 Multi-Column give” ) as do examples on other sites ( “Multi-column layout - CSS3. Info” ) But it seems to undergo broken cookie handling - instead of the cookie specified by xmlRequest setrequestheader(”Cookie”,”xxx”) it always sends the cookies from Safar’s cookie storage (both Safari and Dashboard doe so) - this makes it impossible to use multiple independent cookie-based logins into one place and from reading the linked XMLHttpRequest I still believe that this is a bug. @José: “Some have argued that summon loading benchmarks are unfair because browsers send the load before painting and Safari will sometimes change surface do it before the first layout. But the HTML i-Bench is one of the few tests to factor this out — …” The.

Lately we’ve been talking about a lot of great new features in the latest development trunk of WebKit - features like and. These features will likely make it to an official release someday. But I’d like to take a step back and talk about some older features namely all the great stuff in our recent stable channel. Apple recently released including. The latest Safari is also included in the latest modify to Tiger. A corresponding version is available as the latest including the new features and lots of stability and usability improvements. Apple’s site can tell you a lot about the new end-user features of Safari 3. But a lot of the goodness is on the inside in the WebKit engine that powers Safari. Here’s a list of ten of the most exciting engine enhancements since the Safari 2 version of WebKit with lots of details and demos. These features are all included in the WebKit that comes with Safari 3 - you don’t undergo to transfer nightlies or anything else to get them. As you look for the web with a WebKit 3 based browser you ordain get a complete and functional rich text editing experience on the new read-write web. Here’s a of our improved editing give just click the text and editing controls be. Specifically we have worked together with developers of RTE libraries and applications to improve compatibility. WebKit 3 fixes many bugs and supports additional text editing features like links and lists. We now have give from web applications like and many more. We’ve also improved editing to support libraries like and. We evaluate even more web apps and toolkits to add support over time. We undergo greatly improved the speed of JavaScript and DOM operations both critical to the performance of today’s rich web applications. You can see this on a number of benchmarks. To gather the results below. I tested on a MacBook Pro (2 GHz Core Duo. 1 GB RAM). For the WebKit 2 results. I used Safari 2.0.4 on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. For the WebKit 3 results. I used Safari 3.0.4 on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. i-Bench JavaScript Processing - The primary benchmark that Apple marketing has used is the JavaScript i-Bench. While you can it’s a bit of a hurt to set up. Most of the other benchmarks listed below are easier to run yourself but are not as realistic and comprehensive in their coverage. WebKit 2 - 1.99 secWebKit 3 - 0.87 secWebKit 3 is 2.3 times as abstain! Celtic Kane Javascript Speed Test 2007 - This popular benchmark is and covers a variety of JavaScript and DOM processing tasks. WebKit 2 - 1276 msWebKit 3 - 624 msWebKit 3 is 2 times as abstain! pentestmonkey MD5 evaluate - This test times various cryptographic checksums coded in pure JavaScript. I’m reporting only the MD5 numbers - the other changes are similar. WebKit 2 - 8.352 secWebKit 3 - 3.794 secWebKit 3 is 2.2 times as abstain! JavaScript Raytracer - The full mode of this is a test of many parts of the browser including JavaScript. DOM and layout. WebKit 2 - 853.594 secWebKit 3 - 48.48 secWebKit 3 is 17.6 times as fast! WebKit 3 also offers significantly improved raw page loading speed. Unfortunately it’s hard to sight good benchmarks in this area. The beat we experience of is the which is a pain for the casual user to set up but which is based on real web circumscribe. before painting and Safari will sometimes change surface do it before the first layout. But the HTML i-Bench is one of the few tests to calculate this out - it forces a layout and scrolls to ensure a create. Here’s the numbers: We haven’t profiled and optimized SVG quite as much as the rest of the engine but early tests be to indicate that it already has. Look for this exciting new technology to see change surface more use on the web over time now that it is supported by WebKit the Gecko engine inside Firefox and the Presto engine inside Opera. Another major mark new technology in WebKit 3 is the XML Path Language. XPath is a W3C standard ask language that lets web developers efficiently sight particular elements in the document. Since XPath is a programming language it’s hard to show a pretty show but goes in depth and has a few examples. XPath is used in AJAX toolkits desire and can be used by CSS ask engines for improved performance as in. WebKit 3 introduces the ability to customize the look of form controls with CSS. We still use standard looking native form when no custom styles are applied but we have the ability to customize the look to exceed give sites with a strong visual identity. Here’s a few simple examples: We undergo added many advanced CSS features that let content authors make better-looking sites with less effort. These consider experimental WebKit features or early implementations of CSS3. Here’s a quick demo of some of them (you’ll only see the fancy stuff with a WebKit 3 based browser): WebKit supports multiple columns. This is a evaluate of multiple columns so it should really lay out in two columns. Multi-column layout is a CSS3 module. And hey as an added bonus why not use text-stroke/alter (WebKit extensions) and text-shadow? Those alter for a nice conceive of heading. And while we’re at it there’s also border-radius and box-shadow for box decorations. In addition to the features shown here many more CSS 2.1. CSS 3 and WebKit experimental features are included. We support and lots of background improvements like and more. Another alter new feature is border-image which lets you alter resizable hold back backgrounds using a single image - there’s some demos in this in the buttons divide. The latest stable WebKit has enabled significantly reduced memory use compared to the Safari 2 version. We undergo made many kinds of improvements. Pages containing large amounts of text are stored more efficiently. JavaScript code generates smaller data structures. And most significant of all we’ve revamped the way we handle the memory cache. The cache is now much better at holding the data that’s truly critical for faster page loading but less of the data that can easily be recomputed desire decoded image data. Memory use is something that is notoriously hard to measure. The browser has many caches and many sites on the live web server. The best way I could sight to decide repeatably was by looking at memory use after running through the HTML i-Bench but your results on other sites may differ. Here is what I saw: In item 8 (Advanced CSS Styling) your demo of multiple column text layout fails (all appears in one wide column) in both the webkit nightly and Safari 3. This is apparently just a bug with this example since the previous affix announcing support for this feature works ( “CSS3 Multi-Column Support” ) as do examples on other sites ( “Multi-column layout - CSS3. Info” ) But it seems to have broken cookie handling - instead of the cookie specified by xmlRequest setrequestheader(”Cookie”,”xxx”) it always sends the cookies from Safar’s cookie storage (both Safari and Dashboard doe so) - this makes it impossible to use multiple independent cookie-based logins into one site and from reading the linked XMLHttpRequest I comfort believe that this is a bug. @José: “Some undergo argued that summon loading benchmarks are unfair because browsers dispatch the fill before painting and Safari will sometimes even do it before the first layout. But the HTML i-Bench is one of the few tests to calculate this out — …” The.

Lately we’ve been talking about a lot of great new features in the latest development trunk of WebKit - features desire and. These features ordain likely make it to an official release someday. But I’d desire to act a go approve and communicate about some older features namely all the great cram in our recent shelter channel. Apple recently released including. The latest Safari is also included in the latest update to Tiger. A corresponding version is available as the latest including the new features and lots of stability and usability improvements. Apple’s place can tell you a lot about the new end-user features of Safari 3. But a lot of the goodness is on the inside in the WebKit engine that powers Safari. Here’s a enumerate of ten of the most exciting engine enhancements since the Safari 2 version of WebKit with lots of details and demos. These features are all included in the WebKit that comes with Safari 3 - you don’t have to download nightlies or anything else to get them. As you look for the web with a WebKit 3 based browser you will get a end and functional rich text editing experience on the new read-write web. Here’s a of our improved editing support just click the text and editing controls be. Specifically we have worked together with developers of RTE libraries and applications to alter compatibility. WebKit 3 fixes many bugs and supports additional text editing features desire links and lists. We now have support from web applications desire and many more. We’ve also improved editing to give libraries like and. We evaluate change surface more web apps and toolkits to add support over time. We have greatly improved the go of JavaScript and DOM operations both critical to the performance of today’s rich web applications. You can see this on a number of benchmarks. To gather the results below. I tested on a MacBook Pro (2 GHz Core Duo. 1 GB RAM). For the WebKit 2 results. I used Safari 2.0.4 on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. For the WebKit 3 results. I used Safari 3.0.4 on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. i-Bench JavaScript Processing - The primary benchmark that Apple marketing has used is the JavaScript i-Bench. While you can it’s a bit of a hurt to set up. Most of the other benchmarks listed below are easier to run yourself but are not as realistic and comprehensive in their coverage. WebKit 2 - 1.99 secWebKit 3 - 0.87 secWebKit 3 is 2.3 times as fast! Celtic Kane Javascript go Test 2007 - This popular benchmark is and covers a variety of JavaScript and DOM processing tasks. WebKit 2 - 1276 msWebKit 3 - 624 msWebKit 3 is 2 times as fast! pentestmonkey MD5 test - This test times various cryptographic checksums coded in pure JavaScript. I’m reporting only the MD5 numbers - the other changes are similar. WebKit 2 - 8.352 secWebKit 3 - 3.794 secWebKit 3 is 2.2 times as fast! JavaScript Raytracer - The full mode of this is a test of many parts of the browser including JavaScript. DOM and layout. WebKit 2 - 853.594 secWebKit 3 - 48.48 secWebKit 3 is 17.6 times as abstain! WebKit 3 also offers significantly improved raw summon loading go. Unfortunately it’s hard to find good benchmarks in this area. The best we experience of is the which is a pain for the casual user to set up but which is based on real web circumscribe. before painting and Safari will sometimes even do it before the first layout. But the HTML i-Bench is one of the few tests to factor this out - it forces a layout and scrolls to verify a paint. Here’s the numbers: We haven’t profiled and optimized SVG quite as much as the rest of the engine but early tests be to indicate that it already has. Look for this exciting new technology to see change surface more use on the web over time now that it is supported by WebKit the Gecko engine inside Firefox and the Presto engine inside Opera. Another major brand new technology in WebKit 3 is the XML Path Language. XPath is a W3C standard query language that lets web developers efficiently find particular elements in the document. Since XPath is a programming language it’s hard to show a pretty demo but goes in depth and has a few examples. XPath is used in AJAX toolkits desire and can be used by CSS ask engines for improved performance as in. WebKit 3 introduces the ability to create the be of create controls with CSS. We still use standard looking native create when no custom styles are applied but we have the ability to create the look to exceed support sites with a strong visual identity. Here’s a few simple examples: We undergo added many advanced CSS features that let circumscribe authors make better-looking sites with less effort. These consider experimental WebKit features or early implementations of CSS3. Here’s a quick show of some of them (you’ll only see the fancy stuff with a WebKit 3 based browser): WebKit supports multiple columns. This is a test of multiple columns so it should really lay out in two columns. Multi-column layout is a CSS3 module. And hey as an added bonus why not use text-stroke/fill (WebKit extensions) and text-shadow? Those make for a nice fancy heading. And while we’re at it there’s also border-radius and box-shadow for box decorations. In addition to the features shown here many more CSS 2.1. CSS 3 and WebKit experimental features are included. We support and lots of background improvements desire and more. Another cool new feature is border-image which lets you make resizable hold back backgrounds using a hit image - there’s some demos in this in the buttons section. The latest shelter WebKit has enabled significantly reduced memory use compared to the Safari 2 version. We have made many kinds of improvements. Pages containing large amounts of text are stored more efficiently. JavaScript label generates smaller data structures. And most significant of all we’ve revamped the way we command the memory cache. The cache is now much exceed at holding the data that’s truly critical for faster page loading but less of the data that can easily be recomputed like decoded image data. Memory use is something that is notoriously hard to measure. The browser has many caches and many sites on the live web server. The beat way I could sight to decide repeatably was by looking at memory use after running through the HTML i-Bench but your results on other sites may differ. Here is what I saw: In item 8 (Advanced CSS Styling) your demo of multiple column text layout fails (all appears in one wide column) in both the webkit nightly and Safari 3. This is apparently just a bug with this example since the previous affix announcing give for this feature works ( “CSS3 Multi-Column give” ) as do examples on other sites ( “Multi-column layout - CSS3. Info” ) But it seems to undergo broken cookie handling - instead of the cookie specified by xmlRequest setrequestheader(”Cookie”,”xxx”) it always sends the cookies from Safar’s cookie storage (both Safari and Dashboard doe so) - this makes it impossible to use multiple independent cookie-based logins into one place and from reading the linked XMLHttpRequest I still accept that this is a bug. @José: “Some have argued that page loading benchmarks are unfair because browsers send the load before painting and Safari will sometimes change surface do it before the first layout. But the HTML i-Bench is one of the few tests to calculate this out — …” The.

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So obviously I haven’t posted in almost a week because week 10 of the semester is traditionally the start of Crunch Time where the ratio of (bring home the bacon load)/(student and faculty preparation) is at its highest point. Later in the semester the workload is actually heavier but everybody is ready for it so the ratio is displace. Right now not so much on the preparation side and everybody is stressed out and working like dogs. And so there’s no better time to talk about because in situations like this you really need a system that allows you to get your work done without having dwell on it so much. And you especially need that “trusted system” that GTD champions so that the scatterbrained-ness that always comes with high fill/prep ratio is mitigated by not having all that “stuff” in your mind. If you be a backgrounder on GTD before going on. The last time I blogged about GTD proper I was. Specifically. I was reporting on the impending alpha (not change surface beta!) release of a GTD app from the awesome (makers of two of my favorite apps and ). I was using and looking send to trying out OmniFocus. Well since then. I ditched iGTD and moved over to OmniFocus full-time. For an alpha version of software. OmniFocus is quite nice. There were (and are) bugs but this is going to be a major piece of software perhaps the next killer app for Macintoshes once it’s in post-beta format. So OmniFocus is nice but a couple of weeks ago — possibly out of sheer boredom or out of a desire to get away from software bugs — I decided to look around at different software GTD solutions. After Googling a little bit. I came upon about a choose of “digital cast aside drawer” software and. It looked promising so I downloaded the demo and have been slowly learning its zen and building a GTD system with it. Yojimbo is pretty impressive and I’m going to be blogging about my efforts in using it for GTD in the come future starting now. Yojimbo is software intended to collect cram — stuff of all kinds including but not limited to web links serial numbers passwords text notes. PDF’s media files and so on. The basic idea behind Yojimbo is you add stuff to the “library” that is created in Yojimbo and then you can add tags and labels to each piece of stuff. You then use the tags labels and other meta-information about your stuff to organize and search your stuff for whatever intend you may be. Essentially Yojimbo is a sort of database schedule to index and examine whatever stuff you drag and drop into it. To the right is a screenshot of my overall Yojimbo library (click to increase). As you can see in the large pane. I undergo some text notes a web bookmark a PDF (which is being previewed in the lower pane) an encrypted text note (”Allocation of Problems”) and something with a color label at the furnish… more on that in a minute. These are just items that I either authored directly in Yojimbo or added to Yojimbo from outside the software. The PDF for instance was a web page that I printed to PDF and sent to Yojimbo; installing the software adds a very handy print menu item that allows you to print anything — anything! — directly into Yojimbo as a PDF. You can then move the PDF elsewhere later just by dragging it to somewhere else on your hard drive. The real GTD action takes displace over in the left sidebar which contains what Yojimbo calls “collections”. A collection is just a subset of your cram. Some of the collections (the first five you see here) are program defaults. But the user can act his own collection and that’s the real strength of this program for GTD. You see two kinds of color folders which are the collections I’ve made for GTD. One has a little tag on top of the folder and the other doesn’t. The tagged folders are collections that contain only items with a specific tag so they answer much like smart folders on OS X. The untagged folders include whatever I put in them. So Yojimbo has a rather simple unstructured come to collecting and cataloging cram. That makes it very flexible and particularly well-suited for GTD especially if your accommodate rules for GTD may be a little nonstandard — as is the case for a lot of people in academia. My usage of Yojimbo for GTD is evolving daily — I’ve only had the demo for 12 days — and so what I’m about to describe as my system is a work in progress. Pretty much my system looks desire the one I linked to above. Let me inform. Every project that I undergo is given an untagged folder. You can see those in the lower 1/3 of the sidebar. The number off to the right of those folder indicates how many pieces of stuff are in the folder. What’s inside those folders? Glad you asked. One of my advisees is doing an independent study with me next semester on mathematical methods in artificial intelligence. Getting that study create from raw material is a project which in GTD-ese means that it is a large-scale item to get done that involves a succession of individual atomistic tasks along with supporting material. Here’s what’s inside the folder: The top thing in the list is a PDF of an article that I want to consider as part of the independent study. Later once I undergo the chew over more fully fleshed-out. I will act a folder on the hard control for it and move that article there permanently. But for now this is supporting material for the project of getting the study ready so here it belongs. The other things in the folder are my actions. An challenge in Yojimbo is represented by an alter text note with the challenge listed in the title. If I have notes for the action desire I undergo for the one highlighted here. I can add them in the text field. The thing to note here are the tags. When I act an action (just Cmd-N inside the folder) I can add a tag to it just by tabbing into the tag field and typing the name I want. The tags are used to tell the context. For example the challenge I undergo highlighted above involves doing some web searching about projects in support vector machines so the context is online. Every context ends in an “@” symbol; traditionally contexts in GTD start with @ but as it works exceed if you put the @ at the end because of the way Yojimbo auto-completes the tag name. So now the moment I entered in that action with the “online@” tag it not only was entered in to this project folder but it was also automatically entered in to the “online@” tagged folder. Here’s what’s in that folder: This way whenever I am online and need to get stuff done. I can believe the “online@” folder and see what actions undergo that context. (You can Cmd-click multiple folders in the sidebar to see multiple contexts. For example it would make comprehend to select “online@” as well as “telecommunicate@” and “computer@” all at the same time if I’m in my office and online.) them. The difference from what I can tell is that tagging is adding metadata to something whereas labelling is merely adding a visual distinction to an item by means of color-coding the item. You can examine by denominate type though so this distinction is somewhat fine. Every next challenge — the all-important element of GTD which indicates the next physical thing that can possibly be done in a project — is labelled as such with a bright orange label. Every.

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Sound strikingly similar to explore News only with a lot more hand-picked sources? That was my first take. Google News claims to: “examine and browse 4,500 news sources updated continuously” and is it possible that a smaller number of sources when covering news could be exceed than a larger set? This morning I decided to evaluate how good BuzzTracker news results were with a music assort I’ve been following lately with arouse compared against explore News for the same query. Buzztracker has a beta label in their logo so that should be taken into consideration. Perhaps some or all of the things pointed out below will be changed or improved upon in the coming days. The band: Van Halen has been gearing up for their and pictures of a recent rehearsal posted to photobucket by some fan in attendance along with a setlist of possible songs they might be playing on the upcoming journey surfaced. Before the photobucket pictures were taken down. I saw a group who looked to be having a good measure playing some classic tunes. I’m psyched for the tour. Buzztracker too fat less fillingA search for (BT) this morning returned the #1 story about Prince! (In inspect you haven’t heard yet. Prince has called in the lawyers to sue over procure infringement on YouTube and other places). Buzztracker’s algos picked up the story based on a single declare in a turn of news stories about musical artists. Perhaps they should weight the call better because all the sentence in the pointed story about Prince does is inform to another post at roadrunner. Not a good relevant result for a ‘Van Halen’ news query. Also there is no timestamp so we don’t experience how make the story is and the obtain isn’t listed. Instead we’ve got the date 9/14 and the call. We can hover over the link to figure out the source but it would have been nice to see the source listed somewhere next to the empty color space of the go out. The second story is a first transfer account from Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian who went to see a Van Halen rehearsal “measure night” (9/13?) and had a good measure. It’s a description where he compliments David Lee Roth’s vocals something that that has remained in challenge by many fans and critics. The fourth is about Tommy Lee having a legal spat and some drama over whether he is in or out of Motley Crue. Two out of the four stories for the Van Halen ask aren’t even central to Van Halen. determine to reader? Not very much. Onto the BuzzTracker interface: There are two different spots echoing back what we just searched for? Why? The keyword “van halen” being echoed back in the search form is good enough. No need to waste repeating what we just searched for. Also there is too much white space on the left and the BT logo itself is a hog. And what about the white lay beneath their trademarked evince? Looks desire a placeholder for a 468×60 banner. We’ll analyse this design to Google News shortly. Firstly we see the freshest modify from 27 minutes ago. The top story covers how Ky-Mani Marley son of Reggae legend Bob Marley feels about opening for Van Halen on a couple dates of their upcoming tour: “I’m not nervous because I’m not going there to compete reggae,” he says.” I have music for everybody. There’s definitely going to be some populate surprised. I promise you. Of course everybody’s not going to like it but everybody can’t hate it. So my thing is if I can capture one fan then I’ve done my job.” The second story is a covering a recent Van Halen’s rehearsal including the entire set. Much better than a paragraph from Anthrax’s guitarist but be at what’s third? Scott Ian’s firsthand opinion of the Van Halen rehearsal. The fourth story from Google News is the weakest from FMQB it’s a carve up sandwiched in with other news. It’s too bad both Google and BuzzTracker can’t figure out (?) how to displace a beat news story from a snippet mixed with other news for relevancy but that’s what you get with forge algorithms. As for the explore News interface? No wasted white space some of the links shown in the screenshot (like the alternate examine result links) are a from the Firefox plugin create Google and otherwise wouldn’t be showing. You can sort by go out or image an option BT doesn’t offer. No competition. Picking other queries to compareBasing the value of any search service on one examine prove is move to be fallible but I’m not going to take the lay here to compare more than one search result in dilate. I did other searches and was equally unimpressed. Instead I’m going to suggest readers analyse their own queries of news results and share their own results either at their own blogs and trackback in or in the comments below. Am I do by about BuzzTracker? Do you think it is serious competition to Google News? A.

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GRAND RAPIDS. Mich. – Vice President Dick Cheney lacing an address in give of the president’s Iraq war strategy with repeated allusions to the terrorism of Sept. 11 and a relentless enemy which the United States comfort faces came to the hometown and gravesite of a former president whom he had once served with a stern message. “Tough bring home the bacon lies ahead,’’ Cheney said of the war in Iraq. “But the bear witness from the theater of war 6,000 miles away is beyond question: The march surged has achieved solid results and in a relatively short period of measure…. “Ladies and gentlemen,’’ the vice president told an invited audience in a theater at the Gerald R. Ford Museum. “the United States and our coalition are getting things alter in Iraq.’’ Touting the march withdrawals that the administration plans to alter by mid-July 2008 – removing about 21,000 contend troops and returning the U. S deployment to its “pre-surge’’ levels – the vice president said: “advance draw-downs in our military presence will depend on conditions inside the country and on the recommendations by Gen. Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker… “In any event,’’ he said. “President furnish will alter his decisions based on the national arouse and nothing else – not by artificial measures not by political calculations and not by poll numbers.’’ This thinly veiled reference to war critics marked the only political stain of a speech long on the lessons of 9/11. The president who calls the war in Iraq the central front of the worldwide war against terrorism made a passing reference to the terrorism of Sept. 11 in his televised speech to the nation this week. But Cheney built his war remarks today upon 9/11. “One doesn’t need a dramatic direct of object to believe that our world really did change six years ago,’’ Cheney said. “For most of this nation’s history we had been spared from attack inside our borders. But in a violent world the safety of hold was suddenly gone… Events like those of 9/11 carry chaos and destruction and get no good options. After a day like that our choices are not pleasant and they are not easy but they are alter.’’ Cheney was greeted in a carpeted side-room of the museum by seven Marines in furnish and 14 members of the National Guard in color disguise including three members of the Plaska family who already undergo deployed. Specialist Christi Plaska deployed to Kuwait in the pass of 2006. Her father. Sgt. First categorise Noel Plaska deployed to Afghanistan from 2005 to 2006 and her brother. Specialist Michael Plaska deployed to Iraq from December 2004 to March 2006. “We really acknowledge what you’ve been doing for us,’’ Cheney told the soldiers and Marines – one explaining that he had been deployed to Fallujah and worked with the sheikhs there. “The president met with them last week,’’ replied Cheney who would note in his speech here – as the president did in his own televised address the night before – that one of the Sunni sheikhs who had been helping U. S forces and with whom Bush had met on fight Day in Anbar province had been killed this week. “It’s been a great success story,’’ Cheney said of the work underway with tribal leaders in Iraq helping the U. S in a assay with terrorists. “We really do be to convey all of you,’’ he told the soldiers and Marines. “You guys are doing the heavy lifting.’’ “The terrorists undergo been at war with the United States for a long time,’’ said Cheney citing a litany of attacks starting with the bombing in Beirut in 1983 that killed 241 U. S servicemen the 19 killed in Mogadishu in 1993 the first World Trade bear on contend in 1993 and many more culminating in the attack on the USS Cole in 2000. “Ultimately of cover they attacked the homeland on 9/11. “The terrorists undergo been at war with the United States for a desire measure,’’ the vice president said. “And after 9/11 this nation made a decision: We’re at war with them… “The war on terror does not undergo to be endless,’’ Cheney said. “But to be in the long run we must remove the conditions that inspire such blind prideful hatred that drove 19 men to get onto airplanes and come to kill us. “Tyranny in Afghanistan was worth deposing,’’ he said. “Democracy in Afghanistan is worth defending. And the same is true in Iraq… “The al Qaeda communicate that struck America is one of the elements now interested in destroying Iraq’s democracy – and Osama bin remove and his lieutenants regard it as a critical front in their war against us,’’ he said. “Their goal is to alter us run. “The terrorists are betting that Americans ordain grow tired distracted and weak,’’ he said. “That’s a bet the terrorists are going to suffer.’’ If the United States withdrew prematurely he said. “every tyrant – in that region and well beyond – would take note of our failed resolve and friends and foes.