Javascript, Dash, Google and our future as Web Developers
Dart, is an alternative language to Javascript being developed by Google. Web developers live in an ever changing world of languages, browsers, development kits, and platforms. The recent...
View ArticleJavascript Console Introduction Video
Saw this video and wanted to pass it along. This guy is great at going through some of the fundamental tools we have at our hands as web developers in the Javascript console, that many of us never...
View Article50% of Websites use a JavaScript Library
W3Techs published an update to their JS library monthly usage trend, and says that 50% of all websites now use a JavaScript library. jQuery is the top (by a considerable margin) at 41.7% of all...
View ArticleHTTP Archive: Average Webpage now 965 KB (up 30%) in 2011
ExtremeTech published an article, The web in 2011: HTML5 dominates Flash, trouble for data capped mobile surfers. From the article: According to new research from HTTP Archive, which regularly scans...
View ArticleJohn Resig’s thoughts on Javascript as a First Language
John Resig posted on his site today, Javascript as a First Language. His thoughts on why Javascript is a good fundamental programming language are interesting. This is in reference to using it at Khan...
View ArticleSOPA Blackout JS
On January 18th, this site, among many others will “Blackout” in protest of SOPA. The date is chosen, because that is the day that some technology leaders are appearing at a congressional hearing. We...
View ArticleSOPA Protest Today
It seems like quite a number of sites have joined in the SOPA protest. Some interesting one’s that I’ve seen have been: Google Given their high profile, I was happy to see the logo was blacked out...
View ArticleGoogle Indexing Javascript / AJAX?
Saw a post this morning, Google Bot now crawls arbitrary Javascript sites. Seems like not only is Google indexing javascript files, but executing them as if they were an actual user clicking (thus...
View ArticleWordPress 3.4.1 Maintenance / Security update Released
Time to update again.. WordPress released the 3.4.1 update addressing some basic maintenance issues and a few security vulnerabilities. Some fixes: Theme’s page template detection fix (this could get...
View ArticlejQuery 2.0 to drop IE 6/7/8 Support
To quote the jQuery folks: Our goal is for 1.9 and 2.0 to be interchangeable as far as the API set they support. When 2.0 comes out, your decision on which version to choose should be as simple as...
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