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Dreamz
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Dreamz is an technical blog run by Veerasundar. In this blog, he writes about the web technologies he is working on, his experience, tips and tricks and more.
Recent Posts
Developing a Firefox Extension – the XPI file and XUL
After setting up your environment for the Firefox extension development, the next step would be knowing about the extension file structure. A Firefox extension is packaged and distributed as an XPI file (pronounced as Zippy). This is nothing but a zi...
Firefox 3.6 beta available for download
Last Tuesday, Mozilla has released the beta version of Firefox 3.5 browser, which is available for free download now. Some of the notable features from this latest release are: Built in support for Personas – now you can change your browser ap...
Java is still popular!(?)
Even though the talks like Java is Dead, Java is not good, Java lacks this and that, are increasing these days, Java still holds its position as the most popular language, according to TIOBE programming index. As of November, Java has around 18% of p...
Developing a Firefox Extension : Getting Started
Before starting the Firefox extension development, its a good practice to create a separate Firefox profile, specially for your development. This ensures that your default FF profile is intact and you can switch it back at any point of time. Also not...
SPDY – A Protocol from Google for Speeding up Web
It’s been a month full of announcements of new products from Google. This time its SPDY, short form for SPeeDY, an application layer protocol experimentation. With this new protocol experimentation, Google is trying to improve the communication...
Developing a Firefox Extension – the story behind it
Recently I had a requirement to track some numbers from a website for every 10 seconds. At first, I had two choices for doing this : the first one was to open that web page and do a manual refresh for every 10 seconds. As you might have guessed, this...

