Archive for March, 2010

Facebook DataStore

It’s so slow it’s kinda useless. If you don’t use preload_fql there’s a big change your pages will timeout. But still you’d better not use it and use a real backend database instead !

Why Google Chrome is multi-process

I know why Google Chrome has one process per tab – because their damned V8 Javascript Engine has no multihtreading! There’s no explanation for not having multithreading with different Javascript contexts. I guess I’ll also have to resort to multi-processing instead of multithreading, so cool…

Windows 7 Old Right Click on Taskbar Windows

Do you sometimes need the old right click menu on a taskbar icon in Windows 7 ? The one with Restore, Move, Minimize, etc ? Here’s what happens when you right click a taskbar item:

Should you miss the old menu, press shift+right-click:

If you have multiple windows open: