Firefox 9 Released

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This morning was a nice little surprise for Firefox fans as their beloved turns 9, version 9 that is! With the release of this new version comes a touted 30% improvement to its JavaScript performance!

So far it looks like Mozilla was not playing around! Firefox does have a significant increase in performance when compared to the current leader, Google’s Chrome browser. However these increases are measured in fractions of milliseconds to the average web surfer there will be no noticeable difference. Alas Mozilla does deserve a moment in the sun, but I wouldn’t pop the champagne corks just yet as there seems to be a imminent release of Chrome from 16 to 17 which will bring its own slew of improvements!

It looks like the browser arms race is just getting good!

Full test results below>

Google API fun

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So I started playing around with the Google maps api last week to help build a physician finder for one of Forest Laboratories sites. The API so far is pretty straight forward like most of Google’s code base. However I am running into issues when I try to add in Google places to my custom map. I think it just comes from me passing in some rogue params somewhere. Going to keep playing around with the API’s a little this week and see what cool functionality I can squeeze out of them for this site.

Light’s Out!

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So a while ago I was bored and wanted something to play. I remember having a handheld game as a kid called “Light’s Out” and would play it for hours and hours. Well instead of going out and buying the game on E-bay, I decided to make a web based version. I actually made it a few months ago but now that I have my site up and running I was able to attach it. So if you navigate here you will find the working game. Now it is extremly rough and there are no levels and it will not keep track of a score… I never got that far with it. BUT I also added the source up on GitHub so if anyone wants to grab it and add to it, please be my guest!

Here is the link to the GitHub repo:
https://github.com/jpalladino84/LightsOut_game

Google’s Turkey

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Found Google’s doodle today to be quite cleaver and entertaining. I just spent the past 30 minutes playing around with various combinations of feathers, hats and shoes to get little surprises. I will give you a hint as too one: Pirate hat, pirate shoes, all black feathers. I will let you discover the other ones!

Click on the picture above and play around with different combinations for a few minutes of holiday fun!

Happy Thanksgiving!
Jeff P.