Chris Graham's profile

Firefox and memory

I used to be a Firefox fan, but I moved away once Chrome had good quality web development extensions because one thing Google did really well was performance. It's just such a smooth browser to use and that's increasingly important now websites are getting more and more sophisticated.

Generally-speaking, all the browsers have caught up with Chrome now, but one thing Firefox now has is a really bad reputation as a memory…

Mozilla, you screwed up

A few interesting facts:

• Firefox was the best browser in the world
• It was created by some developers who saw that Mozilla Suite was slow and nasty to use, worse than IE6
• Mozilla signed an advertising deal with Google for Firefox, bringing in $100 million per year
• The early Firefox developers were hired away by Google, to write Google Chrome
• Meanwhile, Mozilla did not invest much of the money into Firefox

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What we do with feedback

I'd like to share the redesigned topic posting screen for version 8:

Before:

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An online booking engine

We're nearing the completion of a project for an ocProducts client which involves a new online booking engine that we've built.

Over the last couple of years this is the single biggest thing we've really noticed is missing if you are looking from a perspective of implementing arbitrary commercial projects in ocPortal. It's a requirement that keeps coming up for commercial interests.
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How to debug an infinite recursion

This is a little post for programmers. I'm sharing this because I think it's an incredibly useful tip that I use regularly, but I've never seen anyone else do it before.

One of the most difficult problems to debug is some kind of 'infinite recursion' in code. It's easy for conditions to accidentally be created for a cyclic dependency, which makes a pattern of code repeat itself to infinity. i.e. A requires B which requires C which requires…