★★★★☆ on both the Goodreads and Amazon scales. If you’re a JavaScript developer, you would be wise to have JavaScript Patterns on your bookshelf–nestled nicely between JavaScript: The Good Parts 1 and High Performance JavaScript (Build Faster Web Application Interfaces) 2. The three make a nice little troika. And read them in that order: The […]
“The secret to building large apps is NEVER build large apps.†– Justin B. Meyer, “Organizing A jQuery Applicationâ€
Stoyan Stefanov’s “WPO (Web Performance Optimization)†presentation from PubCon 2010
WordPress Optimization Bible at Prelovac.com (tagged: blog cache optimization performance wordpress ) PHP « Programming « Portfolio lesterchan.net : book marked for wp-dbmanager (tagged: wordpress plugin ) Ajax code loading optimization techniques by Bill Higgins (via Rebecca Murphey) (tagged: ajax javascript optimization performance todo ) YUI Doc (tagged: api code documentation generator javascript JSdoc yuidoc […]
Managing JavaScript Objects by Nicholas Zakas (at Script Junkie) — a best-practices review of how to keep your objects loosely coupled in JavaScript application design (tagged: javascript design dev essay ) The Taste of Starlight at Lightspeed Magazine (tagged: scifi literature todo ) JSConf.eu Videos at blip.tv (tagged: video JSConf.eu JavaScript todo )
“You don’t have to believe that help is on the way. I only ask that when it arrives, you take just as much ferocious advantage of the new reality as you do of the current one.†– Alex Russell, “Story Time!â€
Functionality Focused Code Organization by Rebecca Murphey (and her related blog post)
How many users have JavaScript disabled? by Nicholas Zakas (at YDN Blog): The second takeaway is that JavaScript-disabled users exist. While 2% of U.S. visitors may not seem like a lot, keep in mind that over 300 million users visit the Yahoo! homepage each month. That means 6 million users visit each month without the […]
50 years of cyborgs: I have not the words. at Quinn Said: I’m [kind] of annoyed that I can have a phone with GPS and even an interface to countless mechanical turks, I can have a Northpaw and I can control my fertility, I can fly anywhere in hours with money I don’t have on […]
In Search of JavaScript Developers: A Gist Rebecca Murphey: I’m looking for JavaScript developers. If you don’t see the value in knowing more than just jQuery, and if you can’t find your way through relatively trivial non-jQuery code, you need not apply. (tagged: javascript ) Land Ho, Fast JavaScript! at Mystery Bail Theater—JägerMonkey (tagged: JägerMonkey […]