ZD's random thoughts

RESTEasy, CXF, Jersey, or Restlet?

Sometimes people are confused over the currency names from east Asia – Chinese Yuan, Japanese Yen, and Korean Won. These names sound similar.

They do sound alike for a reason – they came from the exact same Chinese character 元(everyday form)，圆(simplified Chinese)，or 圓(traditional Chinese). In Japan, the corresponding Kanji has a new form of 円.

As of today, 1 Yuan (Renminbi) = 12.94 Yen = 168.55 Won = 0.1465 USD

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Google Chrome for Mac’s recent dev update 4.0.249.30 was promoted to Beta today. This means you can directly download Chrome for Mac from Google’s main Chrome site instead of dev channel.

I have been using the dev version since it was out. There have been a lot of issues in the beginning but the Chrome team has managed to get rid of major ones. I would recommend Chrome for Mac for everyday work.

I test drove the latest nightly build of Chrome/Chromium for Mac dev version. Interestingly, the version number is 4 now (4.0.202.0 to be exact).

Apparently there are improvements over the previous versions. Noticeably, Flash player is getting better – now I can see Flash animations on most sites. And the IME problem was fixed, too. I can input other languages in text box now!

Still, it is not quite there for production. For example, a process called “Chromium Helper” is using 99% of CPU when I was on gmail. After playing around it for a while, I decided to stick to Firefox and Safari.

That is exactly what Chrome team has been telling people. Let’s hope the next version will be better.