Category Archives: software

Using Texter to speed up web design/development

By Richard Bradshaw | Published: March 5, 2009
Lifehacker’s Texter let’s you define short macros that allow you type a little, and get a lot back. I’ve not used this before, but am constantly finding myself typing the same bits over and over and over, so this is a very neat and helpful little tool. Basically, you just define a command, then specify what [...]
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7 differences between Linux and Windows

By Richard Bradshaw | Published: January 23, 2009
Background Having mainly used various linuxes over the last few years, I’ve returned to using Windows 7 on my main desktop (out of curiosity) and XP on my work laptop (out of the fact it’s not mine!). Thought I’d share somethings I’ve noticed now I’m moving between them daily.
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3 Ways Google Applications can enhance teaching

By Richard Bradshaw | Published: September 6, 2008
Having recently started working at a school where email, calendars, documents etc are hosted by Google Applications, I felt that it would be worth while incorporating these into my teaching and planning. This post describes the benefits I have found from this in the first few weeks, and will outline some plans that I have [...]
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Benchmarking Chrome’s V8 Javascript engine

By Richard Bradshaw | Published: September 5, 2008
Having previously looked at the memory usage of Google’s Chrome, it’s time to analyse it’s much mentioned javascript engine, V8. Assumedly named after the engine with the same name, V8 compiles javascript to machine code, rather than bytecode to achieve greater performance. In this respect, it’s similar to Firefox 3.1’s TraceMonkey, a JIT javascript compiler again [...]
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Google Chrome Memory Usage

By Richard Bradshaw | Published: September 2, 2008
Google Chrome Memory Usage, originally uploaded by Rich Bradshaw. Browsing to about:memory in Google Chrome gives you this interesting display showing memory usage for both itself as well as other browsers running. According to the browser, this is the memory usage of the following browsers on blank pages. (Although Chrome is on the about:memory page, that’s a different [...]
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