Exclusive: How LinkedIn used Node.js and HTML5 to build a better, faster app at VentureBeat — Interesting story here on how LinkedIn switched their mobile experience from Ruby-on-Rails to Node.js; of particular interest: the claim that this switch reduced their code complexity, shortened their development time, and reduced the amount of hardware required to service […]
Nodeload2: Downloads Reloaded at GitHub (tagged: performance architecture git Node.js github ) Fastersite: Finding memory leaks Useful reading on a useful exercise in JavaScript profiling and how to identify and mitigate memory leaks. (Short answer (as usual?) is "be careful with the DOM".) (tagged: javascript web google performance programming essay ) Easy Hikes Around Lake […]
Obama’s Pyrrhic Defeat, Ctd Andrew Sullivan — Debt Ceiling Reading List #2: I have to say I'm not that unhappy with this result, as I explained last night. But that's because I want serious budget cuts and don't regard our current debt as benign. I guess that is what makes me not-a-liberal. But I also […]
Beer Can Chicken Recipe at Simply Recipes — So simple; so delicious. (tagged: recipe food cooking beer grill ) ClojureScript Brings Clojure To The Browser via Javascript Werner Schuster writing for InfoQ on the introduction of ClojureScript — some of its hows and whats and whys. (tagged: javascript Clojure clojurescript essay todo ) An Ode […]
$ cheat git (tagged: tutorial reference git ) Pro Git – Reset Demystified Scott Chacon writing at the Pro Git blog; consider this post to be "part one" of the otherwise missing chapter on git reset. Good stuff. (tagged: tutorial git ) Processing.org (tagged: design visualization tools art software todo ) SwimmingHoles.info: Vermont Swimming Holes […]
How to run an effective meeting by Kevin M Hoffman (writing in .net magazine) – a good piece but I would add two other pieces of advice: [1] never underestimate the value of a clock or stopwatch (e.g., “You have five minutes to explain starting… now.”); and [2] structure the meeting so you can dismiss […]
no country for old hackers Garann Means: But I can’t pretend it doesn’t kill me that the most exciting thing we can think of to do with JavaScript is to clean it up to appeal to people who don’t like JavaScript. (Although I disagree a little bit with her quip about "all those terrible little […]
The Maisel vs Baio Incident In case you haven't been paying attention, Duncan Davidson on the court case that never was: Maisel vs. Baio: Should Jay have the right to claim the derived image isn’t fair use and ask for a cease and desist? Yes. He’s not, as many are saying, a dick for his […]
Microjs "Fantastic Micro-Frameworks and Micro-Libraries for Fun and Profit!" (tagged: webdev javascript tools reference microjs ) Why a JavaScript hater thinks everyone needs to learn JavaScript in the next year by Mike Loukides (tagged: javascript ) Writing Testable JavaScript by Ben Cherry at Adequately Good (tagged: webdev javascript essay testing )
Sass cheat sheet (tagged: PDF sass css webdev system:filetype:pdf system:media:document ) Delegation vs Inheritance in JavaScript by Angus Croll at JavaScript, JavaScript… (tagged: javascript interesting essay todo ) The Pros And Cons Of JavaScript Micro-Frameworks A good and even-handed overview of the subject and some of the practical considerations one must have when entertaining the […]