It has been going on for a while now, but today I took my first spin with the new Swift that many people already have blogged about for a few weeks. It is still an early Alpha, but basic operability is already built into the browser.
Earlier you have seen a KHTML renderer in Konqueror on Linux and an other version of it called Safari for the Mac users out there. And now it is on it`s way to Windows. Way to go.
The first thing I noticed is the speed. It loads very fast, and the rendering is not too bad either. But all this as expected though. But then again, Firefox was really fast in the beginning when it was a beta too, but after thousands of extra lines of code, it is natural that any application will slow down a bit. It will still be interesting to see where this browser will end up on the various speed tests out there though, when it is finished ported to Windows.
One thing I noticed very fast with the browser (all browser I have on my machine handles this differently though) is that if I scroll fast, it creates some leaping artifacts that I don`t really like too much. But then again. This is an alpha and it might be changed lots of times before we see the final result here. But all in all a thumb up for this very fine project.
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Published: 13.12.2006 by Comments 0
That time of year:
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Published: 07.12.2006 by
It is that time of year again. You leave for work and you try to act like nothing is new, but then someone finds out and sends out an e-mail to everyone in a radius of too many square miles to count, and you know you won`t be able to get any work done...again.
A new milestone is set. Not in your project at work nor in your relationship, but on your nice set of growth rings. It marks the half way to 50, and you feel you need to speed up on every front to get your agenda cleared before next mark is closing up on you. But then again, I might be 25, but I am for sure going on 18. So it might not be that bad after all.
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A new milestone is set. Not in your project at work nor in your relationship, but on your nice set of growth rings. It marks the half way to 50, and you feel you need to speed up on every front to get your agenda cleared before next mark is closing up on you. But then again, I might be 25, but I am for sure going on 18. So it might not be that bad after all.
Black and White?:
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Published: 29.11.2006 by
For a long time the Optimus keyboard has been on my wish list for Christmas, but the waiting has seemed endless. The idea is simple, but yet so elegant. It is a beauty of art.
But what I just read made my heart stop pumping for a minute. It seems that it might not end up in colours after all.
They back that up with:
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But what I just read made my heart stop pumping for a minute. It seems that it might not end up in colours after all.
They back that up with:
Black and White is perfect for 95% of the tasks a keyboard requires.
Well, I think they might forget something here. Geeks don`t buy this for 95% of the tasks for their computer. Neon light in their tower isn`t used for anything at all, but people still buy it. In fact, my current keyboard can handle 100% of my tasks fine already. I don`t really look at the keys anyway, I just want this because it looks cool. And it is a show off. If the look is taken away, there isn`t really much left to it. So I think I have to echo some of the comments in the blog right here and now if this goes through.
I am out.
Opera Mini 3 is finaly here:
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Published: 28.11.2006 by
And here it is. The browser that has probably revolutionized the web the most this decade has reached version 3. With lots of new features, and soon even more users , this might soon really kick off.
I have been using it for a long time already, and it has become invaluable to me (only wish I managed to make it work with my Norwegian subscription too). And could say lots of nice things about it. But it is better to head over to Opera.com and try it for your self. There is plenty of tutorials there, and even a emulator of it if you don`t want to use your cell phones credit to test it out.
As a last note, I tested it on my web page too now, and it works, well, not too bad.
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I have been using it for a long time already, and it has become invaluable to me (only wish I managed to make it work with my Norwegian subscription too). And could say lots of nice things about it. But it is better to head over to Opera.com and try it for your self. There is plenty of tutorials there, and even a emulator of it if you don`t want to use your cell phones credit to test it out.
As a last note, I tested it on my web page too now, and it works, well, not too bad.
I should probably do something with it, but it won`t be high on my priority list, witch seems to be the trend for the Opera browser. Sorry about that.
Pounding my page:
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Published: 23.11.2006 by
I was just working on a new feature on my page now. It will show what browses most often visits my page. It will be in the right menu under the visitor counts. And I started with the easy part logging the different browsers. I took only 4 big browser brands and the beginning and said that the rest was other. There shouldn`t be too many of them anyway right?
Well not quite right. What about crawlers. Yeah, what about them crawlers. After working on some of the other functions to display the results I checked back to see what it had logged, and I got quite surprised. The majority is not IE, nor Firefox, and at least not Opera, but Others.
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Well not quite right. What about crawlers. Yeah, what about them crawlers. After working on some of the other functions to display the results I checked back to see what it had logged, and I got quite surprised. The majority is not IE, nor Firefox, and at least not Opera, but Others.
I bet 98% of these are crawlers. Why are they so many, or why do they want to fetch my front page so many times. Do they really need to do this? Does it help us that most of the web traffic these days are crawlers? Or does the spam bots just take a liking to my page? Well sometimes it really looks like they pick a favorite and keep on spamming that one, not because it is necessary, but because it is possible. Just take a look at Jesse Ruderman while he is out of town.
I Get it:
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Published: 22.11.2006 by
I have been home late quite a few evenings from work lately, so haven`t had much time to work on the page, but some happy news from my real job though. I got my contract now. So I am finally permanent at Get now. That was an enormous relief for me. So maybe I get some time to relax my soul now.
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Windows programming over my head:
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Published: 15.11.2006 by
I have used Visual Studio 2005 for a while now. Liked it from the start, like every other VS version I have tried. Of course it used a bit more resources then it predecessors, but it also added lots of great functionality I these days can`t live for out.
But it didn`t take me long to get my first problem. At the time I was playing with Managed DirectX to see if it could have any advantages over my daily DirectX programming. But after installing the Platform SDK problems thorned up. And for some reason they where in the Platform SDK it self, and I couldn`t understand why. Lots of lines like this was spewed out in the console window.
c:Program FilesMicrosoft Platform SDKincludewinnt.h(222) : error C2061: synt
ax error : identifier `PVOID64`
c:Program FilesMicrosoft Platform SDKincludewinnt.h(222) : error C2059: synt
ax error : `;`
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But it didn`t take me long to get my first problem. At the time I was playing with Managed DirectX to see if it could have any advantages over my daily DirectX programming. But after installing the Platform SDK problems thorned up. And for some reason they where in the Platform SDK it self, and I couldn`t understand why. Lots of lines like this was spewed out in the console window.
c:Program FilesMicrosoft Platform SDKincludewinnt.h(222) : error C2061: synt
ax error : identifier `PVOID64`
c:Program FilesMicrosoft Platform SDKincludewinnt.h(222) : error C2059: synt
ax error : `;`
So off to find a solution it seemed at first to be no official fix to this, but editing this line:
C++ code:
typedef void * POINTER_64 PVOID64;
in winnt.h to:
C++ code:
typedef void * POINTER_64;
typedef void * PVOID64;
seemed to do the trick at first, and I forgot about the whole thing. Until today.
Firefox has for a long time been my favorite browser, even though I use Opera quite a lot too. And one of my "Internet friends" (Ryan Jones) have for a while been using lots of his spare time to patch bugs in Firefox. And I felt it was my time to spend some of my time to give something back for a wonderful project.
But after setting up a development environment and starting to compile Firefox for the first time, errors started to pop out. And again it was in the winnt.h file. 2 seconds later and I remembered what I had done a few months ago. Changing it back the way it was did the trick, and Firefox was happy. What should a poor man do!
PS: I am very aware that half the links on my page is still not working. I`ll get to that too, but there is just too many interesting things in the world that gets in my way..:)
New host, new agenda:
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Published: 22.10.2006 by
Finaly I got my self a connection in the new appartment here in Norway. And on top of that I got my self a new host for this web page. Which in the end means I need to change a few things for the web page to work as it should be. And while I am on to that, why not throw in some new functionality while I am at it.
I will upload pictures from the last 2-3 months, as well as adding new script to the page, which in the end will mean some down time, and some links will not work at all time. Still hope you will stick around until everything is up and going again. Wish me luck, I think I`ll need it.
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I will upload pictures from the last 2-3 months, as well as adding new script to the page, which in the end will mean some down time, and some links will not work at all time. Still hope you will stick around until everything is up and going again. Wish me luck, I think I`ll need it.
Last weekend:
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Published: 03.07.2006 by
Then my last weekend in Geneva was over. But in fact I didn`t spend it in Geneva nor Switzerland at all. Ludovic opened up his home for us, and invited us to France. We had excelent weather , lots of good food , and drinks . I couldn`t ask for a better end of my stay here in Geneva then this, except that France beat Brazil in the World cup. Thanks to you Ludo, and everyone that joined us this weekend. I hope to see you all again some time in the future.
For the rest of the pictures you can find them in my album section.
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For the rest of the pictures you can find them in my album section.
3 laws for you and your bus::
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Published: 29.06.2006 by
Some mornings it really feel like you should have stayed in bed. You know you have a tight agenda. But you know you can make it. But then you forgot about all those things that can go wrong.
I could list a million things that didn’t go as they should today. But they are random, and work related most of them, and would be just a boring list of excuses. Something I don’t like to come with. But one think strikes me as particularly odd. And that is the laws on how buses works. It seems to happen to me every time. No matter what city, or country I am in. Maybe it is just me. Maybe it really is a law about this. Well lets have a look at them.
1. If you are one minute late to the bus, then the bus was 100% precise and has already left. But more interestingly, the next one will for sure not be on time.
2. When you are standing there waiting. There will always drive one bus in the other direction before one pass you in your direction. If there is more then just your bus-number that stops on that bus stop, then you can be sure there will be at least 2-3 busses before one of yours drops by.
3. If you need to do a transfer. Lets say from bus 28 to bus 9. And at the transfer point your bus is supposed to be there 1-2 min before bus 9. Then you can be sure that your bus is 2-3 minutes late, but bus 9 is exactly on time.
Now this might just be me. Or that I just notice these days more then others. But to me it seems like every time I take the bus to meet friends or what ever and I have a tight schedule, then I have to come up with an excuse like I missed the transfer or the bus was late. Is it just me? Please say it is not just me….
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I could list a million things that didn’t go as they should today. But they are random, and work related most of them, and would be just a boring list of excuses. Something I don’t like to come with. But one think strikes me as particularly odd. And that is the laws on how buses works. It seems to happen to me every time. No matter what city, or country I am in. Maybe it is just me. Maybe it really is a law about this. Well lets have a look at them.
1. If you are one minute late to the bus, then the bus was 100% precise and has already left. But more interestingly, the next one will for sure not be on time.
2. When you are standing there waiting. There will always drive one bus in the other direction before one pass you in your direction. If there is more then just your bus-number that stops on that bus stop, then you can be sure there will be at least 2-3 busses before one of yours drops by.
3. If you need to do a transfer. Lets say from bus 28 to bus 9. And at the transfer point your bus is supposed to be there 1-2 min before bus 9. Then you can be sure that your bus is 2-3 minutes late, but bus 9 is exactly on time.
Now this might just be me. Or that I just notice these days more then others. But to me it seems like every time I take the bus to meet friends or what ever and I have a tight schedule, then I have to come up with an excuse like I missed the transfer or the bus was late. Is it just me? Please say it is not just me….
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