Archive for the ‘Software/Tech’ Category

JSLitmus – A Tool For Testing JavaScript Performance

http://blog.zenbe.com/2008/11/07/jslitmus-a-tool-for-testing-javascript-performance/

Correction: Web 2.0 Sucks For Reviews

There’s an interesting phenomenon taking place lately that I find a bit disturbing. It has to do with how consumers are leveraging their newly discovered online powers of opinion. In principle, I think empowering people by given them tools to communicate with one another is a good thing – people should be able to be [...]

Javascript UUID Function

Here’s a little JavaScript treat: Math.uuid.js is a function for generating different flavors of UUIDs in JavaScript. The function supports RFC 4122-compliant UUIDs (or GUIDS), like this: AFF147E4-5BB1-448E-B55D-0A834ADE3124 … as well as non-standard random IDs of arbitrary length and radix. For examples of the types of IDs it can generate, or to see performance data, [...]

How To: SMC Barricade 7004WBR + HP-5MP + MacOSX

I’ve written previously about my HP-5MP printer. One of the things I love about it is that I’ve been able to get it to work with every computer I’ve ever had in my house – PC, Mac, Linux, you name it. Not only that, but for probably the last 8 years, I’ve been able to [...]

Mutual attraction authentication

“Hi, this is Mark from Experian. We’re calling to update your contact information…” That’s how I was greeted when I answered the phone just now. This was nominally someone from one of the big 3 credit reporting agencies calling to make sure they had current contact information for their database. Harmless enough, right? Well… probably. [...]