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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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5 mistakes new web developers often make

By Richard Bradshaw | Published: June 29, 2008
Image via Wikipedia Having talked to some university students who had taken computer science/IT degrees, I was amazed by how little they seemed to know about making anything that’s secure or even remotely logical. The group I met with primarily had been taught PHP. Having looked at some sites they were designing I realised 5 things [...]
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Writing web apps with AppJet

By Richard Bradshaw | Published: December 19, 2007
AppJet bills itself as allowing “instant web programming”. As a relatively competent programmer, I had a look to see whether this tool would be useful to me. The key feature of AppJet is that it allows you to write code and publish it without having to host it yourself. Any application that you make has a [...]
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