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Category Archives: Computers

Firefox 3

Firefox 3 was launched this morning (5am NZ time). Mozilla Foundation have made a huge marketing effort to the point of setting a world record for the most downloaded software in 24 hours. Now, you’d expect, with a market share just shy of 20% of the global web browser market share and that kind of [...]

deleteCell may have side-effects

UPDATE: I have created an interactive test case and an automated test case. Turns out the behaviour is reproducible. Now, is this a bug or am I just missing something about the way that method should work? I was debugging a client-side heavy application today in IE7 and ran up against a very weird bug. [...]

Windows Vista

I has been an awfully long time since I last posted here. Many things I could’ve written about, maybe I will in the next few weeks. Anyway, this post is about Windows Vista. More specifically, installing Windows Vista Business (64bit) onto a Macbook Pro (Santa Rosa). The Apple Bootcamp drivers that came with my laptop [...]

Thoughts On Music

Steve Jobs has issued a Hot News article detailing Apple’s stance on DRM and it’s future. I’m going to go so far as to say he has laid down a challenge in full public view to the big 4 Music Distribution Companies. However I can see that his account serves only to appease the public’s [...]

Internet Explorer 6 Performance

I spent a huge part of today trying to determine the cause of a major Internet Explorer performance and rendering regression in a Web Application I'm developing. The reason it was such a bitch to find was because so much code had changed since the last time I had done a proper test in IE6. [...]