Monthly Archives: September 2008

Smush It – Easy Image Optimization

Just came across the ajaxian post about smushit.com which was presented at The Ajax Experience by Stoyan Stefanov and Nicole Sullivan. It’s a nifty tool that optimizes images on any web page you pass it by using doing lossless compression … Continue reading

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SquirrelFish Extreme – Quick Benchmarks

The recent javascript vm wars harken back to the video card wars of the early 2000′s where 3dfx, ATI, and NVIDIA where trading blows. Instead of we have Google, WebKit, and Mozilla trading blows by releasing a faster and faster … Continue reading

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Ubigraph – Visualization Tool

I’ve been playing around with this awesome new visualization tool called Ubigraph. It is very easy to start producing something that looks stunning but it’s very hard to make it useful. I’ve taken out the labels in the following picture … Continue reading

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V8, TraceMonkey, SquirrelFish, IE8 BenchMarks

After reading about the new JavaScript VM in Google Chrome (called V8) I was wondering how it would stack up against the new JS engines from Mozilla (TraceMonkey) and WebKit (SquirrelFish). I ran 3 tests across all the browsers, including … Continue reading

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