Egyptian Pyramid

"Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves." --Alan Kay

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On Time Software

"More people have ascended bodily into heaven than have shipped great software on time." --Jim McCarthy

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End of The World

"The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents." --Nathaniel Borenstein

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YSlow Firebug Plugin

Yahoo has released a great tool, YSlow, that integrates into Firebug and analyzes web pages to determine possible performance issues.

For more information about this great new web development tool check out its features and screenshots.

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Firefox Popup Window Resize

For some reason, some popups in Firefox have been opening with the wrong size for the content displayed and the resize feature was disabled for the windows.

After some research, I found that in Firefox you can override this behavior by changing one of the many user preferences.

To do this <ol>
<li>Type about:config in the location bar and press enter</li>
<li>Search for the β€œdom.disable_window_open_feature.resizable” entry</li>
<li>Change the boolean value from false to true</li>
</ol>
Setting this to true will prevent a window from disabling the resize feature.

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