Expecting Rain

Over the weekend I took it upon myself to try creating a Firefox extension. I was lacking for a good idea, so I donated some time to my company and created an extension that would ease the use of one of our internal applications. As such, I can't post it publicly, but I was very impressed with how easy it was to create.

Firefox extensions are basically an xml file to describe the UI (.xul), a couple RDF files to help the installation process, and JavaScript. There are many tutorials on the web you can search for. The one the got me started was found here.

Here is an interesting link about the beta? release of Java 6. I've really been looking forward to this release due to the hype it is getting.

Source: http://headius.blogspot.com/2006/11/java-se-6-passes-final-jcp-approval.html

Due to our hectic schedule and the low priority this project has, we're not exactly burning up the keyboard coding it, but we are having fun.

Code count:

Line count for src......     484
Line count for proc.....       9
Line count for util.....     176
Line count for unit.....     376
Line count for web......       9
Line count for misc.....     153
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Total...................    1207

Started
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Finished in 0.661805 seconds.

21 tests, 107 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors

Jim Plush posted an interesting article on memory management for Firefox web apps. I've not tested his findings yet, but they look pretty good. In this world of fancy DOM modifications in a browser, memory management becomes a huge issue.

Source: http://www.litfuel.net/plush/?postid=148