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I read High Performance JavaScript when it came out. It took me a while to write this review. I’ve been busy (day job x spending a lot of time outside because it’s summer = less time for writing) Anyway, it’s really good. It’s short, but well-written and focused so it’s an easy book to dive […]
In case you missed it the latest Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview is out and it’s a thing of beauty. It added Canvas support so the first thing I did was run it through some demo code. It’s faster than Chrome. Visibly faster. No benchmarks needed. It’s such an incredible difference from the current Internet […]
With more and more people embracing the idea of producing HTML5 mobile web apps, research like this is becoming vital. There are a lot of gotchas in this article, especially if you’ve been ignoring this space. You should read the whole article, but I just want to point out a pair of findings before I […]
I’m going to be picking off presentations whenever the opportunity presents itself. Want to play along at home? Blip.tv to the rescue: Next year, I’m going.
I’ve seen this a few times over the past few months: <script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js”></script> What that basically says to Google is “give me the latest 1.* branch version of jQuery and make sure it’s minified.”