Life is busy, and the thing that always seems to get pushed aside is my personal blog. I have been writing for The Austrian for the past few months, but even my activity there has been slim. I hope to get back here in a few weeks when everything calms down.
Everyone used to love my little RESTful stock quotes api. Unfortunately the rest based api had to be scraped because I couldn’t support it. Lucky for everyone, I have found a better way to get realtime stock quotes from Google. The title links to what I found.
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to feel the perceived speed difference; the SunSpider benchmarks just prove it. Plus, I don’t think I will ever use another browser without Jonathan ‘Wolf’ Rentzsch’s ClickToFlash plugin for WebKit.
Update: Compare the above link to the Chromium Nightly Test.