Archive for September, 2008

LHC: Large Hadron Collider: What could we discover…?

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

I am eagerly waiting for the first results to come out of the LHC, and the next, and then the ones after that…
The possibilities for advancing theoretical physics through experimentation are remarkably rare, so an event of this magnitude should be followed with interest. Whatever the results, physics is about to undergo a huge leap [...]

Speed Testing Chrome for List Processing

Monday, September 8th, 2008

What are we testing?
As Rich Internet Application development progresses, more and more developers are moving towards the functional programming capabilities of JavaScript.
First Order Functions, Closures, Macros and Lists are becoming a mainstream method of development.
When you can tell the computer how to do it, rather that listing what it needs to do, it becomes much [...]

How fast are chrome plugins?

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

It just occured to me, that, as the V8 javascript engine compiles JavaScript to native code…
…any plugin written in JavaScript should run at native speeds…
Does anyone have any more information on this?

Byting the hand that feeds you…