Browser buttons (bookmarklets) are shortcuts that act like a simple browser plugin. Their advantages include:
I’m glad people liked the introduction to Rails; now you scallawags get to avoid my headaches with the model-view-controller (MVC) pattern. This isn’t quite an intro to MVC, it’s a list of gotchas as you plod through MVC… Read article
I’m thrilled by the recent attention and your feedback. Seeing your “Aha!” moments motivates me to write — though I’ve been neglectful lately. I’m busy, the dog ate my browser, the draft’s in the email… you know the… Read article
Ruby on Rails is an elegant, compact and fun way to build web applications. Unfortunately, many gotchas await the new programmer. Now that I have a few rails projects under my belt, here’s my shot at sparing you… Read article
I’ve been on a web tweaking kick lately: how to speed up your javascript, gzip files with your server, and now how to set up caching. But the reason is simple: site performance is a feature.
For web… Read article
Compression is a simple, effective way to save bandwidth and speed up your site. I hesitated when recommending gzip compression when speeding up your javascript because of problems in older browsers.
But it's the 21st century.… Read article
Debugging is one of the most painful parts of developing web apps. You have to deal with browser inconsistencies with HTML, CSS and javascript, let alone the difficulty of debugging javascript itself.
Here’s a rundown of the Firefox extensions I… Read article
I’m happy people are finding the article on javascript optimization useful. But I made a giant, horrible mistake. A mistake that befalls many tutorials.
I didn’t include actual, working examples for you to play with. You can talk all… Read article
This isn’t a reference guide, programming tutorial or detailed overview. It’s a Javascript refresher, assuming you know another programming language and puts all the information in one place (just ctrl+f to find!). Javascript has nothing to do… Read article
Javascript is becoming increasingly popular on websites, from loading dynamic data via AJAX to adding special effects to your page.
Unfortunately, these features come at a price: you must often rely on heavy Javascript libraries that can add dozens or… Read article
