I decided I needed to look-up the weather here today, and decided I should see if there is some sort of weather extension for Firefox. If not I thought it might be fun to try and write one. But, wouldn’t you know it, there is already a very good one called WeatherFox that uses weather.com data. Check it out for yourself. Firefox is teh bestest browser evar!!!!11111
A co-worker pointed me towards this ZDNet story about an online casino which chose to move to J2EE from their legacy ASP-based application. Here are a couple of interesting tidbits from the article:
The betting exchange has been slowly ramping up its new site over the last few weeks and plans to retire the old ASP-based presence on Monday, 13 September. Betfair claims to have around 250,000 customers placing around 300 bets per second.
He claimed that the company evaluated building the site around .Net and J2EE and carried out an exhaustive comparison at the beginning of the project. “Ultimately, we chose J2EE due to its proven enterprise track record, security, and maintainability. .Net offered faster development and performance, but for a mission-critical, 24×7 site such as Betfair.com, we chose the proven, secure technology.”
One has to wonder, did they switch to Unix or Linux during this process as well?
I just manually ran an update in Eclipse, and it looks like I picked a good day to do it– CFEclipse 1.1.16 was released today. It looks like a major laundry list of bugs were fixed, and a lot of enhancements were added– read the announcement for yourself if you’d like more information. As always, thanks for your hard work guys! I don’t have any comments on it quite yet as I just got it installed.
I just did a quick Google for ‘Firefox GMail’ to see if there was anything out there for Firefox other than GMail Compose, and turns out there is a GMail Notifier Firefox extension. Good stuff. I have a few GMail accounts, so it makes it easier to keep tabs on them since all of the current GMail notifying systems only support one address.