A couple of months ago, Opera announced they were dropping Presto in favor of WebKit to allow them to spend their time focusing on the browser rather than the HTML rendering engine within it. This was seen by some people as a loss for web standards as Opera were the major company pushing standards and […]
Page Speed Score [Update]
Back in May last year, I wrote a post about a new Firebug (for Firefox) Plug-in called Page Speed, that allowed you to test the load time of your website and get some useful tips on how to improve this. This week, Google took that idea and extended it into an independent online tool, making […]
Google open a fresh pot
Google last night announced they have completed their migration to their new web indexing system known as ‘Caffeine’. This new system basically allows them to push anything Googlebot finds into the main index in seconds rather than weeks. Previously Googlebot would crawl the web, find a site, then submit its content to another system for […]
Page Speed Score: 93/100
Google made a post the other day about “Me and site performance, sitting in a tree…” so I thought before we get to the “…k, i, s, s, i, n, g!” I should give her a run for her money, check she is good enough for me. First thing the post suggest is to check […]
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For a while now, I’ve been wanting to learn how to build and develop mobile applications on Android, I made a start using Appcelerators Titanium, but not long after during a press conference, a certain fruit seller announce his phone was banning apps developed using 3rd party tools. While this didn’t affect me directly, as […]