Entries Tagged 'Web Development' ↓

Jacob Moon writes on the Google Code Blog about how they increased performance on http://code.google.com. Tips include combining/minifying your JavaScript and CSS and using CSS sprites for often used images. This is a good article outlining steps taken to performance tune a high-traffic website in the real world.

John Resig has an interesting hack on his website today for rewriting url query parameters in JavaScript. The interesting part of John’s solution is using JavaScript’s replace function to search a string and then perform an operation other than replace. Nice trick to know about.

Six Revisions has a blog post entitled “20 Websites That Made Me a Better Web Developer“. It is a good collection of sites covering various aspects of web development, and a list of sites every web  developer will want to keep in their bookmarks.

You may remember from a few weeks ago lots of buzz around the net regarding Internet Explorer 8 and their “opt-in” tag for rendering web pages (if not, A List Apart has two articles of opposing viewpoints by Jeremy Keith and Jeffrey Zeldman).

Today, the IE team has reversed that decision and decided to go with standards mode rendering by default. This is great news and will score Microsoft more points with developers than I think they realize (the Time Breakdown of Modern Web Design comes to mind).

You can read more coverage of this story at Ajaxian or Slashdot. John Resig has some things to say about the decision as well.

Paul Annett of Clearleft has a tutorial post on Vitamin today stepping the reader through a recreation of the parallax CSS design trick from Silverbackapp.com. Parallax scrolling for a website involves overlaying png images to give the page a 3D look.

Smashing Magazine, king of the top-x lists, posts another list today, this time outlining 50 cool CSS techniques. Some of the links are blog posts outlining the technique while others are simply links to sites using the technique, leaving the obtainment and grokking of the source code as an exercise for the reader. I found the Triadic Background Setting with CSS and the CSS Transparency Settings for all Browsers particularly helpful. Good list!

Geertjan Wielenga has an interview with Mark Ashworth on JavaLobby today about Mark’s connext-graphs project. Connext-graphs wraps Open Flash Chart as a Struts 2 plugin and allows easy generation of interactive charts in a Struts 2 application. The interview ends with Mark walking the reader through the code for getting a basic chart up and running with the plugin.

Struts 2 and Scala - Jeff Cunningham posts today about how he used Scala in a WebWork/Struts 2 application. Seems to have worked flawlessly without any sort of hacks or workarounds needed. I wonder if anybody has tried the same sort of thing with Groovy yet?

Lessons Learned From Using JBoss Seam -  Matt Raible has a post today listing some things learned while using JBoss Seam.

Pat Fitzsimmons posts Nine JavaScript Gotchas in his blog today. It seems like I hit most of these every day at work. Good list of things to be on the lookout for when writing JavaScript.

Ext is a JavaScript Ajax Framework. So is JQuery. Flot is a plotting library for JQuery. The Savvy Duck has a post today on how to get JQuery’s Flot engine working with Ext. Handy article for those of you using Ext but need charting/graphing capabilities in your app.