Preventing Firefox memory, processor bloat

Posted by Frank - February 9, 2010 - For techies

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If you’ve read this blog before, you know I’m a big Firefox fan. But the one problem that has dogged me is the inevitable bloat that Firefox suffers when open for long periods of time. I work in my browser all day, and after 8 hours it has usually gobbled up all the available RAM, [...]

jQuery 1.4 released

Posted by Frank - January 20, 2010 - For techies

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The latest and greatest version of jQuery, version 1.4, was released on January 14, the birthday of jQuery’s original launch. Bugfixes and improvements abound! The jQuery team has put together a site devoted to the new version, called the 14 days of jQuery, covering the major version changes as well as infrastructure updates coinciding with [...]

MySQL’s Monty Widenius responds

Posted by Frank - December 29, 2009 - For entrepreneurs, For everyone, For techies

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My summarizing and opining post discussing MySQL founder Michael Widenius’ protest of the Sun purchase by Oracle prompted a response from none other than Monty himself. Hit the comments to see what he has to say about my response, which was definitely net-negative in the final analysis. I have responded in the comments of that [...]

MySQL founder Michael Widenius concerned about sale to Oracle

Posted by Frank - December 18, 2009 - For entrepreneurs, For techies

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In case you haven’t heard, Sun is being bought by Oracle. After dancing around the issue in blog posts over the past 8 months, MySQL developer-founder Michael “Monty” Widenius finally comes out and adamantly opposes MySQL’s role in the sale. In a Dec. 12 blog post, Widenius tries to rally open source MySQL supporters in [...]

Open source mentoring

Posted by Frank - September 23, 2009 - For techies

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I was quoted in another IT World article last week discussing how mentoring occurs in open source communities. Below is the full text I sent to the author, in case anyone wanted more background on my comments. In my experience, mentoring in open source projects occurs between the project leaders (i.e. artisans) and their most [...]

Archive your entire Twitter timeline

Posted by Frank - August 5, 2009 - For techies

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My code for displaying Twitter posts on your site is pretty handy, but it does have drawbacks. Each page load involves calling a remote URL, downloading a resulting XML file, and parsing the results, increasing your load times and using bandwidth. To minimize the impact, you can really only display a handful of the most [...]

No “private” setting in open source

Posted by Frank - February 3, 2009 - For techies

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I love the PHPMailer system. Straightforward, effective, very well documented and supported. It’s everything that a piece of software should be, and best of all it’s free. The parent company, codeworx Technologies, supports and maintains a piece of software used by millions of sites for free, and gets a ridiculous amount of exposure in return. [...]