Friday 28 August 2009

Optimize Firefox Speed

  You can use pipelinning to speed up page load.Which allows Firefox to load multiple things at once.

    * Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return.
    * Type “network.http.*pipe” in the filter field, and change the following settings.       
    (Double-click on them to change them):
    * Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true
    * Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true
    * Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to "8".




Helpful Links
http://egonitron.com/2007/05/25/the-truth-about-the-firefox-pipelining-trick/

Wednesday 26 August 2009

Packge once. Deploy everywhere

I was looking for a software to bundle my application as one installer. So it can deploy it any where. I found open source product IzPack. It requires only a Java virtual machine to deploy.

IzPack : http://izpack.org/

There are some commercial product available, Following products are used to create windows installer (msi) package.

InstallShield
Advanced Installer

Some more free tools ..

Windows Installer XML (WiX)
InstEd
NSIS

Saturday 22 August 2009

Eclipse Plug-In - Easy Explorer

Easy Explorer is a very useful plug in, Which helps you to browse resources with the native Operating system explorer. In the Eclipse, select a file, right-mouse click, and select the 'Easy Explore...'

I am using Galileo & easy-explore-1.0.4.

Image Magnification Testing :(






Plug-In details links

Easy Explorer Home
Download Plug-in