_{Jamie Balfour's}Articles

When I first used Firefox over 10 years ago I found that much needed alternative to Internet Explorer again; which I had been using since my Netscape browser was no longer being developed. It slowly became my favourite browser. But all of a sudden Firefox has suddenly become my least favourite browser. This article describes why.

Browsers leverage caches, so why don't they just keep a copy of important libraries?

HDMI-CEC is one of those hidden gems in the world of technology. This short article talks about how brilliant it is.

I've been through quite a few laptop computers, each of them has been special to me in some way or another. This is the history of my laptop computers from my first to my current.

HTTP is old, and it's not moved with the times. In this article I make my first suggestion to improve it.

Whilst PHP has been one of my all time favourite language for what it can do, it has a very bad level of inconsistency through out the syntax.

Technology is a huge part of everyday life but is it progressing humanity or becoming a threat? In this article I intend to find out.

Ever wanted to have Facebook in your Messages app on your Mac? Well, thanks to a bit of work you can.

In September 2014 I became a pescatarian and now I'm on route to become a vegetarian. This article describes my experience of doing this.

It is sad how the web has become this place where no individuals will create a custom website tailored to their own personality and requirements. The web consists of so many prebuilt sites that individuality is disappearing altogether.