I just published my first ever browser extension, called Plurk Notifier, for Google Chrome. It checks Plurk (akin to Twitter) for any unread messages and displays their count in the top bar. It was fun to wade back into JavaScript … Continue reading
This week is the first ever Computer Science Education Week. Some of the statistics on the official site are sobering (“The percent of high schools with rigorous computer science courses fell from 40% to 27% from 2005-2009”), while others are exciting: … Continue reading
I’ve been using Chrome considerably more over the past few weeks, and with the addition of [developer-only build] extensions, Firefox may gather more dust than I expected. I just tweaked the Google Reader Checker extension to fix a weakness it … Continue reading