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Javascript on the server with Akshell

Matthew D. — Thu, 20 May 2010 21:57:07 +0000

I’ve been intrigued by a few different “Javascript on the server” frameworks as they have passed by. Here is one that runs Javascript in a cloud and have an online IDE for creating the sites. The article at the bottom is an interview with the creator.

Akshell is a Cloud Service that helps developers [...]

Javascript parseInt quirkiness

Bruce Y. — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:35:56 +0000

I found a funny quirk to the javascript parseInt function today. I tried this:

hour = parseInt(“08″);

expected a value of hour == 8. What was the result? hour == 0. huh?

Well, here’s the function syntax:

parseInt(string, radix) If the radix parameter is omitted, JavaScript assumes the following: If the string begins with “0x”, the radix is 16 (hexadecimal) If [...]

45 Powerful CSS/JavaScript Techniques

Young-Ki K. — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:17:54 +0000

A list of tutorials to do some very clever things with CSS and JS. Some notables:

Advanced Event Timeline With PHP, CSS & jQuery Sproing! – Make An Elastic Thumbnail Menu Sticky SideNav Layout with CSS Simply-Buttons v2 A Colorful Clock With CSS & jQuery

45 Powerful CSS/JavaScript-Techniques – Smashing Magazine

SproutCore: HTML 5 Framework

Bruce Y. — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:40:24 +0000

I was looking to see if there were any frameworks for HTML 5 and came across SproutCore. It’s an MVC framework and has some similarity to GWT in that it compiles all the code into HTML/JS/CSS that should work across browsers without plug-ins. Also like GWT, it has a bunch of panels, buttons, and controls [...]

A JavaScript Optimizer

Matthew D. — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:52:46 +0000

I’ve been learning about Clojure over the last month or two, which is a dialect of the Lisp programming language that compiles to the JVM. That has nothing to do with this blog except that it led to finding Google’s Closure Tools.

Closure Tools include a JavaScript Optimizer, a comprehensive JavaScript library, and an easy templating [...]

Tools to Visualize Data

Chi-Ming — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:57:39 +0000

I was doing some research on tools to create interesting visualizations of data and ran across this very interesting visualization from Gapminder.org tracking infant mortality rate versus per capita income for a variety of countries over time—with country population thrown in for good measure. That’s 5—yes, count them 5—”dimensions” of data. It takes the form [...]

Fancy Fonts with Cufon

Jeff W. — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:12:12 +0000

Janet recently found a site that is using non-standard fonts for most of their text. As we explored the site to figure out how they were doing this, we found Cufon. Cufon allows for text replacement similar to sIFR, but without the use of Flash. This opens up design possibilities using more fonts without making [...]

Michael Jackson, the Slowing of the Web, and iframe Widgets

Jeff W. — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:37:18 +0000

On Thursday, as the world was looking to the internet for information about Michael Jackson, the internet came to a crawl. The initial assumption was that news sites simply weren’t equipped to handle the spike in traffic that such an event would cause. Even Google News flagged the surge as an automated attack. According to [...]

Tiny in-line graphs and charts with JQuery

Jason G. — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:05:12 +0000

I found a JQuery plugin which allows you to put tiny in-line graphs and charts into your HTML with “one line of Javascript”. (For the picky people, no this is not counting all of your data prep work and initialization of JQuery). Very clean and very configurable, lots of options.

I would’ve really liked [...]

Faster websites – Improving User Experience

Jeff W. — Thu, 28 May 2009 06:09:44 +0000

At Google I/O (Google’s developer conference), Steve Souders (the creator of YSlow) presented a few ideas for making websites even faster.

When it comes to optimizing a website for speed and user experience, there’s only so much you can do from the backend. The most room for performance improvement is in client-side frontend. Anywhere between 80 [...]