One way to speed up loading of a website is to use Content Distribution Networks (CDN) for resources that don’t update often, such as JavaScript, images, and CSS. A good CDNs for a large site can run into the thousands of dollars, fortunately for those that rely on JavaScript frameworks such as jQuery, Prototype, [...]
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I think of bookmarklets as a way to greasemonkey patch a webpage with custom JavaScript not approved by the author of the website you are visiting. Bookmarklets are a bit of JavaScript that you save as a bookmark and when visiting a page, if you click on that bookmark, the JavaScript will run on [...]
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Twenty-five percent of AJAX is the J part, the JavaScript. When working with dynamic data coming from the back end you must create the necessary DIV containers and HTML elements and append the new new elements into the document body. In FireFox you can create a new element using the createElement method on [...]
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Google has a YouTube channel with over 1000++ videos of presentations on a large number of programming and software development topics. Here are the top videos recently released in the Google Tech Talks channel regarding JavaScript and web performance that every web developer should see.
JavaScript: The Good Parts / Douglas Crockford – In JavaScript [...]
Twitter Clients
Writing a Twitter client has become the new Hello, World! There are Twitter libraries in just about every major language such as PHP, Ruby, ActionScript, Python, Java, and more. The Twitter API is simple enough that you don’t need much, you can go a long way with the command line and curl.
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The Browser War is flaring up once again with the release of Google Chrome. Google Chrome is a new browser based on many freely available open source components such as WebKit and Firefox. Chrome is bare bones, chromeless, browser with very little UI fluff and decoration. It is interesting to note that [...]