Category Archives: work

Chrome Frame Dev Channel and Testing Gotchas

July 1, 2010 – 2:17 pm

So you’re making the new shiny — ’cause that’s how you roll — and you’re thinking to yourself “hrm, I’ve told users of legacy browsers to get Chrome Frame or upgrade, but there’s this new awesome feature in the Chrome Developer Channel…but it’s not in the version of Chrome Frame I’m testing with. I thought [...]

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Perspective Is Not A Liquid Asset

May 5, 2009 – 1:11 pm

ZDNet has an article out discussing a study that shows that that Chrome’s (Open Source) auto-update system makes the browser more secure than the alternatives. Disclosure: Google co-authored the study. I work for Google, on Chrome. Caveat emptor. Back when I did security for a living, I quickly noted a distinction between those who saw [...]

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Ending The ga.js Wait

April 11, 2009 – 9:10 pm

Google Analytics is ubiquitous, not least of all because it’s better at what it does than most of the alternatives. Also, it doesn’t require any install or maintenance. And it’s free. What’s not to like? Frankly, not much, but if I had to nit pick, I’d note that the worst part of Google Analytics is [...]

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Notes To A Future Self: Getting Productive On WinXP

December 8, 2008 – 2:15 pm

Windows XP is truly a horrid desktop OS, particularly if you’re a programmer. The default install contains roughly nothing useful, and even getting a development environment going requires grabbing the likes of cygwin, Visual Studio, and a zillion patches from Microsoft. The truly dispiriting thing, though, is how badly cmd.exe still sucks. I fully admit [...]

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Joining Google

November 23, 2008 – 2:48 pm

Starting next month, I’ll be a Googler. To my great surprise, I’ve been at SitePen two and a half years. It has been nothing short of wonderful which may explain why it doesn’t feel like it has been that long. When I look back at what we’ve accomplished it’s also surprising that we’ve been able [...]

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