Month: June, 2008

Programming vs. Engineering vs. Mathematics.

20 June, 2008 (17:28) | Programming, Humor, Computer Science

An experiment was conducted in order to study the differences between programmers, engineers, and mathematicians. One programmer, one engineer, and one mathematician were all locked in separate classrooms for one week. Each classroom contained all of the normal things you’d find in a classroom: chalkboard, chalk, desks, etc. In addition to that […]

Getting your extension to work with Firefox 3.0

18 June, 2008 (13:20) | JavaScript, Programming

When you develop a Firefox extension you’re required to specify the minimum and maximum versions of Firefox which your extension is known to work with. This is done by specifying a minVersion and maxVersion in the install.rdf file inside your plugin’s archive. Since my ClearSkyPlugin isn’t likely to break in any future version of […]