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How to disable FireFox caching

Gray — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:12:19 +0000

Web browser caching is good. But even now in the days of 20+Mb broadband, caching web requests still speeds browsing up. It’s also saves money in bandwidth costs.

At home, and work, I set up a caching proxy server with pfSense and Squid, rendering my browser cache effectively useless. Here’s how to disable FireFox’s browser cache completely.

Fire up FireFox
Type about:config in your address bar
Type ‘cache’ in the search bar, and look for network.http.use-cache, and double click it to set it to false. Double clicking it again will set it to true and re-enable the cache

To forcibly reload a page and all its dependencies, direct from source, ignoring local and proxy caches hold the shift key and hit reload. This applies not only to FireFox but also IE6/7 and Safari (maybe others too).

National Broadband Strategy

Gray — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:27:32 +0000

When you think about the world today, do you see most shopping and services are done in brick and mortar shops. It has always been done this way, but things are changing. Today we have global marketplaces with global reach via the internet, but why then is the US slipping in the world on broadband penetration into our country?

For lack of a better reason it appears to be apathy, our lawmakers, our people are getting more and more apathetic. We just don’t care to see beyond out little lives and how it affects the big picture. We are a nation always on the leading edge of technology and revolutionary new ways of doing things, so being 11th in the world on broadband penetration seems like we are dropping the ball on technology. At least now we have a few FCC commissioners willing to go before the senate and spout the virtues of building a plan and executing. They are talking about gathering useful data and then spurring competition in the broadband market by giving tax credits and investment subsidies, this will get us part way to where we need to be but the other part is you.

Well not you particularly, because if your reading my blog there is a good chance your on broadband, what I mean is us the people demanding more, and better service. When we know technology is out there and could make things better we living in a market economy should demand what we want. If you want something, there is a good chance there is someone willing to sell it to you.

Without the push for a broader national broadband strategy, how much farther are we willing to fall behind in technology?
Ars Technica

Facebook Code leaked

Gray — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 03:13:26 +0000

Well the code for facebooks index page has been leaked and I had a chance to look it over. I was curious as I develop in PHP on enterprise level apps and wanted to see how they do their code. Here are my few impressions:

Pros:
They use templates, That is always a good thing, it separates code from HTML.
Its clean, you can tell they use coding standards.

Cons:
Little evidence of OOP (Object Orientated Programming.)

The link to the code has been taken down with Facebook slapping a cease and desist on the blogger. But if your still curios you can find screen shots at http://bayimg.com/lAFLaaAbl