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Looking at Java NIO Buffer performance 6 Oct 2011 | 02:40 pm
While starting to convert much of our IO to using nio byte buffers, with an eventual goal in pushing that further up into the application, I decided to investigate in some more detail performance. I’d...
What I’ve Been Up To 11 Jun 2011 | 05:19 am
The last post here was about leaving Mozilla, and I mentioned a tiny bit about where I was going and what I’ll be working on. Then there was radio silence for a few months. So, what have I been up to?...
Moving On 16 Feb 2011 | 05:20 pm
I’ve recently made the decision to leave Mozilla for various reasons, largely because I’ve been wanting to do something different. Here are some thoughts on this. I became involved in Firefox and the...
WebGL in Firefox 4 Beta 8 22 Dec 2010 | 08:00 am
One of the parts of Firefox 4 that I’m excited about is support for WebGL, a standard for accelerated 3D rendering on the web. We’ve been working on this for quite a while, and I’ve been doing experim...
Using Adobe Lightroom with Dropbox 21 Nov 2010 | 10:51 am
I’ve often been frustrated with the lack of a good solution for syncing a photo library amongst multiple computers. Typically, I only have my laptop with me when I take photos, especially on a trip. ...
Building Fennec for Android under Win32 2 Nov 2010 | 08:50 am
I’ve been using Windows 7 as my primary development platform for a while (don’t let the MacBook Pro fool you — it’s probably spent less than an hour total in MacOS X), but have always needed to use a ...
Getting Information from Windows Vista/7 Display Driver Resets 13 Oct 2010 | 04:41 am
Now that we’re doing hardware acceleration on all platforms, we’re touching all sorts of OS components that we haven’t in the past. One of those is much closer interaction with the graphics card driv...
Fun With Fast JavaScript 31 Jul 2010 | 09:14 am
Fast JavaScript is a cornerstone of the modern web. In the past, application authors had to wait for browser developers to implement any complex functionality in the browser itself, so that they could...
EGL & OpenGL ES Come to Windows 27 Jul 2010 | 09:05 am
It’s SIGGRAPH time, and this means all sorts of interesting announcements in the graphics world. One of these came today from AMD, who announced that they plan on shipping both EGL and OpenGL ES drive...
WinDbg Image Viewer Extension 19 Jul 2010 | 09:55 am
Since I often work on graphics code, one of the things I frequently want to do while debugging is take a chunk of memory and view it as an image. No standard debugger seems to do this, which is surpr...
