Proudly, they say: In IE8 Beta 1 we also increased our per-server connection limit from 2 to 6. What this means is that in IE7 and below pages could only download 2 elements from a given server at any one time. Increasing that limit to 6 allows sites to download 3 times as much content [...]
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File: August 2009
I haven’t been particularly productive the last few days, since my wife bought me Tom Clancy’s HAWX… a very good distraction, if a little short and horribly buggy online. However, she’s been busy making more cute things: White sheep and black sheep – the “coats” are removable so you can have shorn sheep too if [...]
I’m writing some stuff involving various map tile servers out on the internet, which are internet-slow at responding. To avoid cluttering up all my other code with asynchronous junk, I’ve implemented Futures in C#, like so: namespace IjwFramework.Types { public class Future<T> { Func<T> f; IAsyncResult async; T value; bool hasValue = false; public Future(Func<T> [...]
My wife Rosanna has got herself a job relieving at an early childhood centre in Palmerston North – which is very good, since it means she’s not hanging around the house with nothing to do all day. Also, she’s been busy knitting stuff – including these three dolls, which are very cute: She’s also been [...]