Firefox in NYT: The Fox Is in Microsoft’s Henhouse (and Salivating)

December 19th, 2004 Here's some interesting observations from the article: FIREFOX is a classic overnight success, many years in the making. Firefox is a Web browser that is fast and filled with features that Microsoft's stodgy Internet Explorer lacks.

August 29th, 2004 Update: Mozilla group of browsers including Firefox now has proper support for applets. This post is no longer relevant.

September 23rd, 2008 When using enums in a switch, it is almost natural to assume they will be used like a regular switch. Unfortunately to accomodate enums, Java had to enhance its specification and enums in switch behave differently than regular switch statements in two significant and non-trivial ways.

September 28th, 2009 CentOS comes with OpenJava JRE installed. However that doesn't provide the required libraries to run Java from browsers (read: applets).

February 10th, 2005 My blog readers prefer Mozilla based browsers, which is used by 51.21%. IE is lagging behind at 39.08%! On the other hand my readers prefer Windows with Windows XP alone accounting for 51.48%.

September 23rd, 2008 Should we use to represent a constant String such as browser's user agent or simply use public static final String as before? Using public static final as enum has many problems, such as: Not typesafe - Since a type is just an int you can pass in any other int value where a particular type is required, or add two types together (which makes no sense). This is particularly noticeable in C programs where you will find strange constants being used in un-related place and yet it seems to work, simply because the required constant and the provided constant share the same int value.

December 20th, 2004 Typing a keyword like java in the location box does an automatic search and takes you to the first link it finds. It fails when the link contains a (dot).

April 16th, 2008 Selenium Remote Control (RC) is a test tool that allows you to write automated web application UI tests in many programming languages against any HTTP website using any mainstream JavaScript-enabled browser. Selenium RC is a powerful and simple framework for running (scheduled or manually) automated UI centric regression tests for web applications / services.

July 1st, 2008 Selenium is a high quality open source test automation tool for web application testing. Selenium runs in Internet Explorer, Mozilla and Firefox on Windows, Linux, and Macintosh, Safari on the Mac, with plans to support Safari on iPhone soon.

February 17th, 2007 Traditionally companies choose Windows as their desktop environment and often for their intranet servers too. Windows is generally perceived as being easier to use and administer and mostly with good reason.

July 29th, 2007 Broadband service in India is much less reliable than their counterparts in USA. While in USA, I used Pacific Bell 1.5 Mbps connection for 3 years without a single minute of downtime or any other problems.

August 7th, 2007 Fedora Core developers make it rather hard to install and properly configure Sun's JVM. All said and done Sun's JVM (comes with JDK) is the best JVM implementation out there; not to mention that it is the reference implementation.