chrome

Skeet: A Twitter Client for Chrome

For users of Google Chrome there are a number of useful extensions that enhance your browser in a myriad of ways. Skeet for Chrome is a new Chrome extension that provides a lightweight, simple, and usable Twitter client right inside your browser.

Present.ly Chrome Extension

We’re always looking for ways to make it easier to keep up to date with your co-workers using Present.ly. Recently I’ve been using the Mac Beta of Chrome and thought a Chrome Extension could be a great way to use Present.ly throughout the day. As of today it is available on Google’s Chrome Extension Directory.

Present.ly Chrome

Ruby & WebSockets: TCP for the Browser

WebSockets are one of the most underappreciated innovations in HTML5. Unlike local storage, canvas, web workers, or even video playback, the benefits of the WebSocket API are not immediately apparent to the end user.

The Brightbox Toolkit

It’s been quite interesting to read the recent “Tools of the Trade” meme where people are blogging what they use to do their job. I found it so interesting in fact, that I decided to find out what tools we all use at Brightbox. Here’s our list.

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Hardware

Smart Clients: ReverseHTTP & WebSockets

Polling architectures, as pervasive as they are today, did not come about due to their efficiency. Whether you are maintaining a popular endpoint (Twitter), or trying to get near real-time news (RSS), neither side benefits from this architecture.

Internet Explorer Free under Ubuntu Linux with VirtualBox

My job is web application development, so I have to test my projects under most popular browsers, like Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera and Google Chrome.
Firefox, Opera, GoogleChrome work great under my Ubuntu Box, and the other once work under Wine.

*Internet Explorer*. It's pain to setup IE6 and IE7, because you can take a look of many bugs with render html and vml.

Just forget Wine for the purpose!
Microsoft give us FREE virtual PC images with IE6, IE7, IE8 aboard!
Don't you believe?

Google with our Web Applications...

With the release of Googles browser Chrome, as Web Developers I think we could take a few pointers that I am sure we all know about but sometimes we need to be reminded.

Technology

Google wanted to introduce a browser that had multiprocess architecture. Other browsers, if one of the tabs crash the whole browser crashes. In our web applications we need to take advantage of new technology like Rails 2.2 and develop applications that are innovative making use of technology to develop new concepts and ways of solving a problem.

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