A Guide to Automating HttpWatch with PHP

March 03th, 2011 - 2:48PM

Stoyan Stefanov, the creator of smush.it, architect of YSlow 2.0 and engineer at Facebook, has written an excellent three part guide to controlling HttpWatch from PHP: Automating HttpWatch with PHP Automating HttpWatch with PHP #2 Automating HttpWatch with PHP #3 He’s even published a class that wraps the HttpWatch API and makes it easier to use from PHP. In the rest of this blog post we wanted to follow up on a few points mentioned in Stoyan’s blog posts. These items don’t just apply to PHP. You may find them useful when automating HttpWatch using other languages such as C# or Ruby. … Continue reading →

The Firefox Process Model

February 02th, 2009 - 3:38PM

One of the interesting new features in Google’s Chrome browser is the use of one Windows process per site or tab. This helps to enforce the isolation between tabs and prevents a problem in one tab crashing the whole browser. In comparison, Firefox seems to have a simplistic process model on Windows. It doesn’t matter how many tabs or windows you open, or how many times you start Firefox  – by default you get one instance of firefox.exe: In Internet Explorer you can create a separate instance of the browser process just by starting another copy of iexplore.exe. There are advantages to Firefox’s single process … Continue reading →