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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?

Eclipse Update URLs

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

I have been using eclipse for long enough to have often run into the problem of locating the update URL for any specific project and more importantly for the required bits needed to run that extension. So here are all the update URLs I know of:
* Graphical Editing Framework (GEF)
UPDATE URL: http://download.eclipse.org/tools/gef/update-site/releases/
* Eclipse Modeling Framework [...]

MediaWiki Info

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

This is a list of all the important pages I have found in my hunt for development and programming information about mediawiki:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:MediaWiki_Development - a good list of basic info.
Leading to:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Database_access
basics of database access inside mediaWiki extensions.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Image:Mediawiki-database-schema.png
Main Database Schema in large format png image
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Documentation:Security
Security documentation, uptodate as of version 1.8.1
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extending_wiki_markup
How to write a markup extension.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_architecture
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Template
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Parser_function
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Variable

Hello World

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

I have been told that it is time I started to write my thoughts down. I think the person who made the suggestion (you know who you are) had my best interests at heart, but mostly it was just to stop me plaguing those around me all the time.
I was trained as a Marine Biologist [...]

Byting the hand that feeds you…