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Recent Reading (JavaScript Library CDNs, User-Agent Strings, Hacks, Hacks and Hacks)
Should You Use JavaScript Library CDNs? Interesting reading. Here’s the salient bit: Or, more simply: If we use Google’s JavaScript Library CDN, we are asking the majority of our website visitors (who don’t have jQuery already cached) to take a 1/3 of a second penalty (the time to connection to Google’s CDN) to potentially save…
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I’m Resolute
Looking to 2010, these are the big things I’m hoping to accomplish (tech wise):
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What I Read This Week (jQuery’s live(), algorithms, IE8 + VPN, Chrome )
These are the posts that have kept me engaged during my quiet moments this week. Demystifying jQuery .live() and why it’s generally faster than .bind() A short article looking at jQuery’s .live(). List of Algorithms Just what it says it is- a big-ass list of algorithms. I wish more had source code. Using a VPN…
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JavaScript Library Showdown. Video of my CDIA Presentation is Live. Check It Out!
Thanks to Jason Duclos, my presentation from a couple of weeks ago is live. In it I compare standard JavaScript DOM methods to YUI, jQuery, Dojo and Prototype/Scriptaculous. JavaScript Library Showdown from rob larsen on Vimeo. Here’s the deck. Jason is the man for putting this together, by the way.
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YUI 3.0.0 beta 1 Available for Download
While I’m not a library guy in my day to day (more on that soon, I promise,) I do have some experience with YUI and featured it in my JavaScript library evaluation and talk in April, so it’s definitely of interest when a major new release is pending. YUI is mightily impressive. Style-wise, the code…