2008 Election Results from Google

Can Haz ColorZilla?

Yes you can!

I have been waiting for the excellent ColorZilla extension for Firefox to update for quite some time now and was bummed that even though Firefox 3 had gone final that it still hadn't been released. After some digging today I found out why. The ColorZilla extension was rev'ed and the FF3 compatible version is ColorZilla 2.0.

Download it here:
ColorZilla 2.0

More from the developer:
Alex Sirota

Firefox 3 RC2 now out

The latest release candidate has shipped. The URL for the download is the same as before:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-rc.html

More info:
Firefox 3 (Release Candidate 2) Release Notes
Mozilla Wiki - Releases/Firefox 3.0rc2

State Of Ajax from Google I/O

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[I'm cross-posting this from my Tumble Log because I think it's such a great presentation.]

Slide 146 is Epic: “Time spent trying to get the bastard to work in Internet Explorer.”

Firefox 3 RC1 out

Looks almost exactly like Beta 5 as far as I've been able to tell after about a day's use. Appears to be quite stable.

Download it here:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-rc.html

More info:
Firefox 3 (Release Candidate) Release Notes
Mozilla Wiki - Releases/Firefox 3.0rc1
Slashdot coverage: Firefox 3 RC1 Out Now

Firefox 3 Beta 5 released

Source: Firefox 3 Beta 5 Welcome
Firefox 3 Beta 5 has arrived and it looking good and running stable. Still no sign of offline application support, though I haven't really had time to dig for it.

Download the latest Firefox 3 Beta here.

Oracle LIKE vs. SUBSTR evaluation

You learn something new every day. Today after a fair amount of testing, I discovered that...

SELECT
    *
FROM
    MYTABLE
WHERE
    ID LIKE 'STRING%'

...is about about twice as fast as

SELECT
    *
FROM
    MYTABLE
WHERE
    SUBSTR(ID,1,STRINGLENTH) = 'STRING'

YMMV.