On UBC campus wireless internet… 🙂
Dennis
I am currently a software developer at A Thinking Ape Entertainment Ltd. I graduated from the University of British Columbia with a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science with the Software Engineering Option. I primarily speak Python and C# these days, but in the past I've also done Objective-C, Java and PHP.
Outside of work, I'm a volunteer on the youth ministry team at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church, and also on the Canadian Ski Patrol team at Mount Seymour. I'm also an avid transit enthusiast/photographer.
VeriSign Increases Domain Prices… Again
According to this article at Domain Name Wire, VeriSign is increasing its domain name prices yet again. VeriSign is the registry operator for the .net and .com top-level domains, and basically is free to raise the price each year its contract is still valid.
Google Chrome
Google is releasing a beta of its browser application, Google Chrome, finally. The scheduled release date is tomorrow (Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008). Google Chrome uses the WebKit rendering engine, which is currently being used in Apple’s Safari browser among others. I personally prefer Safari’s speed at loading pages, and I hope Google Chrome using the same engine can achieve same or better speeds than Firefox or Internet Explorer. Also it seems like each tab in Google Chrome will be run in its own process, which should make memory leaks easier to manage (well hopefully there won’t be any to start Continue Reading
htop – an improved “top”
htop is an interactive process viewer for Linux machines that runs in the console. It is a lot easier to use than the built in ‘top’ utility.
WordPress Upgraded
I’m amazed at the easiness of the WordPress upgrade system. The “three step upgrade” really lives up to its name; I upgraded from quite an old version of WordPress and I had no problems with the upgrade at all. However, I wish the same could be said about themes. As you can see, I’ve reverted to the default theme for now.