A few days ago I was playing around with activity monitor and decided to inspect Firefox. I saw the Shared Memory flash some huge amount. Luckily I was able to get a screen shot of it the next time it happened. Pretty funny bug, There are a lot of ways this could [...]
Archive > May 2008
Blocking Direct Access to a PHP File
I came across this issue while working on my Facebook application. I didn’t want people to be able to view these PHP files locally because they are included in other files. There are a few ways to do this, you can use an htaccess file to block Apache from loading the file when accessed [...]
Thoughts on Twitter
I have been using Twitter for over a week now and I thought I would share my thoughts on their downtime. It seem’s like whenever Twitter goes down people go crazy and start bashing the service. Maybe it is because I don’t rely on twitter the downtime is not that big of a deal. I [...]
Been Really Busy
Sorry for the lack of updates. As you may have read finals week was this past week. While two of my professors haven’t submitted grades the grades that I do know about are pretty good. Hopefully by the end of this coming week I’ll know how well I did in all of my classes.
So what [...]
Facebook’s New Profile Redesign
Facebook invited some bloggers to their HQ to show off their latest profile redesign. The guys over at TechCrunch covered it, check out the article its pretty interesting. I just wanted to give my thoughts on some of the images that were released.
I’ll admit my facebook profile is cluttered and I don’t use third party [...]
Google Health
While doing my morning reading of news I stumbled across Google’s “Factory Tour of Search” on TechCrunch. It turns out that Google released their Health application today. It has been known for a pretty substantial amount of time that Google has been working on this.
Google Health allow’s people to have greater control over their medical [...]
Facebook Applications and I
As some of you may know I have slowly been learning php. I decided that it would be fun to develop a Facebook application and a great learning experience. So I started writing this application, their demo code was a BIG help, and its been a pretty fun experience. Once it’s done I may post [...]
Firefox 3 RC1 Released
While doing some browsing a few minutes ago Firefox alerted me that a new version came out. I figured it would be Firefox 3 Beta 6 but I was surprised to find that it was RC1. Mozilla posted on their developer blog with the changes and a link to the download (scroll down when you [...]
I Made a Twitter Account
I guess you could say that I bought into everyone raving about how awesome twitter is. I had known about it for a while but I never really felt like creating one or using it for that matter. Anyway I am using twhirl to post to twitter. You can find me at http://twitter.com/m4tthew. Follow or [...]
Finals Time Again
Yep that time has come once again. So I am pretty busy with school work and reading up on old stuff. I may not be around as much as usual this for a little over a week. But I will still try to write things, mostly news since it takes a while to write my [...]
