Feb 20

2011 Browser Statistics

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I was curious about what the breakdown of browser statistics looked like in 2011, and I was pleasantly surprised by what I found.

These statistics are provided by W3Schools and can be found at: http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp.

2011

Internet Explorer

Firefox

Chrome

Safari

Opera
December

20.2 %

37.7 %

34.6 %

4.2 %

2.5 %
November

21.2 %

38.1 %

33.4 %

4.2 %

2.4 %
October

21.7 %

38.7 %

32.3 %

4.2 %

2.4 %
September

22.9 %

39.7 %

30.5 %

4.0 %

2.2 %
August

22.4 %

40.6 %

30.3 %

3.8 %

2.3 %
July

22.0 %

42.0 %

29.4 %

3.6 %

2.4 %
June

23.2 %

42.2 %

27.9 %

3.7 %

2.4 %
May

24.9 %

42.4 %

25.9 %

4.0 %

2.4 %
April

24.3 %

42.9 %

25.6 %

4.1 %

2.6 %
March

25.8 %

42.2 %

25.0 %

4.0 %

2.5 %
February

26.5 %

42.4 %

24.1 %

4.1 %

2.5 %
January

26.6 %

42.8 %

23.8 %

4.0 %

2.5 %

 

I was very happy to see that Chrome usage is starting to pick up… Firefox slightly dropped (presumably some users switching to Chrome), and that Internet Explorer was the lowest usage among the top 3 browsers.

I have to really say that I love and recommend Chrome. It is a sleek/fast browser with a great user experience. Every time I get someone to switch to it from Internet Explorer they are very happy with the speed in which pages load in comparison. Firefox is still great, don’t get me wrong, but as of today… I am a Chrome guy, and I love to recommend it to others.  Chrome does have a bit of a minimalist type design, which can be nice, but confusing at first, for those that are looking for the typical File | Edit | View types of buttons, but you can quickly get used to it. It just takes a little getting used to, to figure out where all the options/menus are.

If you’re a web designer or developer, I do prefer Firefox’s firebug plugin over Chrome’s version of it, so I tend to still do my debugging, and CSS manipulation with Firefox, but for all other browsing I go with Chrome.

That’s just my 2 cents on browser choice :) Hopefully Chrome will continue to keep climbing in popularity!

Dec 10

Rise of developernomics ?

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I don’t usually post articles not pertaining directly to ASP.NET/SQL Server/ or other code related things,  but this one caught my attention, and is related to software development.

Interesting article that was published from Forbes, touting the value of developers to their companies.  I love the article, but of course I am biased. :)   In a rough economy such as this, it does give some comfort.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/venkateshrao/2011/12/05/the-rise-of-developeronomics/

Dec 28

Wake on LAN with Linksys WRT54G

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I wanted to write a quick web application to send a MagicPacket to be able to allow my PC to wake up remotely from a sleep or shutdown, using WOL. There were plenty of samples out there, and it was relatively straight forward.

Two of them that worked great (at least internally)

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/IP/cswol.aspx

http://bartdesmet.net/blogs/bart/archive/2006/04/02/3858.aspx

So I ventured out to do it, and ran into quite a few problems…

I am by no means a networking expert, and am pretty novice in my experience in that area, so naturally I did not understand that I cannot just use simple port forwarding to forward a MagicPacket to a specific IP on the network, because when the computer is shut down or asleep… it has no IP.

So how do you accomplish this? You can send the packet to your public IP and forward to a “broadcast” address (by default will be 192.168.1.255 on most networks, assuming you have not changed your subnet address). This in theory works…but I cannot test this because my Linksys WRT54G router will not allow it, and from the looks of it, not many routers will… (there are JavaScript validation workarounds for older versions of this Linksys firmware if you’re curious, that can circumvent this, http://rotwhiler.wordpress.com/2009/03/24/enable-wake-on-lan-through-linksys-wrt54g/)

So to try and wrap up a long story, here is how I accomplished wake on lan, over the internet using my WRT54G router: By now I am assuming you are using some sort of DNS service such as http://www.dyndns.com/ , to access your networks IP publicly, and that you have your necessary hardware configured properly, both in your OS, and your BIOS.

1) Flash your Router’s firmware with a 3rd party firmware (in my case I used Tomato, http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato ) , but do this at your own risk, and make sure that you are using the correct firmware for your router model and version, or you could end up with a useless router.

2) Once you’re inside the Tomato firmware, turn on remote access to the router, and set up a port number to access the router remotely (default is 8080). (Make sure you are not using any default passwords for your router access)

3) The kicker…. using any browser just access your router remotely, with the specified port number ( thisIsMyComputerDNS:8080 ) , log in to your router, and issue the WOL command from the Tomato interface… Kind of a bummer that I was not able to do this outside of the routers interface, but that’s life… I already wasted a lot of time on this

If this can help one person issue WOL commands over the net, I will be happy.  Good luck!

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