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Useful Firefox extensions (add-ons)

Posted by Keith under Cool Apps, Development Tools

Although not perfect, I use Firefox as my primary browser, along with IE and Opera (for different purposes). I use Firefox especially for development and bookmarking because its rich set of extensions. I’ve been using following extensions for a while and they’re very useful:

• Adblock Plus
• Advanced Bookmark Search
• Bookmark Duplicate Detector
• Dictionary Tooltip
• Bookmark quick folder
• Delegate to Remember The Milk
• Enhanced Bookmark Search
• Evernote Web Clipper (installed with EverNote v3 Beta)
• Fast Video Download
• Firebug
• Flashblock
• Flat Bookmark Editing
• Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer
• Google Gears (Installed with Google Gears)
• Google Notebook
• Live HTTP Headers
• Locate in Bookmark Folders
• PDF Download
• SEO for Firefox
• SEOPen
• Server Spy
• Show IP
• Speed Dial
• Tab Mix Plus
• View formatted source
• View Source Chart
• Web Developer

Realtime Java

Posted by Keith under Java

Interesting article:

http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-04-2008/jw-04-realtime.html

http://www.javolution.org/

Whenever I work on such project or reading on it, garbage collection is one of many problems that developers will face.  Some times I hope that Java give more control (dynamically, programmatically) of memory management to developers.

Scripting Language vs. Java

Posted by Keith under Java

I remember back in late 90’s to early 2000, everyone was screaming and yelling that scripting language will take over the web development.  Well, it ain’t happened.  However, significant portion of web sites are now developed in scripting language, and they aren’t small sites either.

As Windows is de-facto desktop OS and Linux is the backend, may be scripting language based technology will serve web frontend, and java and other technology for backend.

Interesting reading:

http://andigutmans.blogspot.com/2008/03/java-is-losing-battle-for-modern-web.html

http://www.projectzero.org/