Archive for August, 2008

Performance Testing in JavaScript

Saturday, August 16th, 2008

Fast pages and quick load times are key factors to keeping visitors on your site.
If you make them wait, they will leave.
So the speed of your JavaScript applications is crucial.
Fortunately, it turns out that JavaScript applications are ripe for performance optimization.
This requires a strong testing framework… enter JSTR.
String Concatenation Performance
A simple example of the type [...]

A ‘foolish’ new tool for Javascript

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

I have been dying to shout about this…
instead I have been waiting very patiently…
BUT now it is time to SHOUT!
JSTR(Jester) is out of the box!
JSTR is the first ‘Browser based’ (ie:Cross-browser ):

Testing
Benchmarking
Optimization

tool for javascript.
With both import & export of Test-Sets, as well as auto-generated URLs, JSTR lets you easily share your code with everyone else, [...]

Fixing an error building my first carbide.c++ project

Monday, August 11th, 2008

I installed the Carbide.C++ IDE today, followed the tutorial instructions but got an error when I went to build the project.
Error: “bldmake returned with exit value = 2″
A little digging later and I found the solution…
Open a CMD prompt to the group folder of my project and run:
“bldmake bldfiles”
It told me that bldmake.pl was unable [...]

Secure your phpinfo from the bad people

Monday, August 11th, 2008

I use the phpinfo() function a great deal, for basic information to advanced server administration checking, so I like to have it running on all my hosts.
Unfortunately this is a great hole in my security, as this information is a gold mine for the hackers out there.
I could simply remove the file when I am [...]

Byting the hand that feeds you…