jQuery Performance Tips Cheat Sheet
PDF ZIP Source 1024×768 1440×900 1280×960 1680×1050 1900×1200 I was hunting for jQuery performance tricks for a while to tune my heavy dynamic web app. After digging in a lot of articles decided to...
View ArticleShuffle Arrays with Javascript
Working with random values in Javascript is like leaving in a cave. The only thing you can work with is Math.random() that returns a random number between 0 and 1. If you need a 0 to 10 value –...
View ArticlejQuery Novice To Ninja – Book Review
Recently a friend asked me what will be a good book to start learning jQuery with a more practical approach. My answer was ‘jQuery Novice To Ninja’ by Earle Castledine and Craig Sharkie. It was a...
View ArticlejQuery Doom Windows Plugin – Simple Javascript Dialogs
Demo Download Source jQuery page Looking for a tiny modal dialogs library? Then this one is for you. Doom Windows is easy to style, configure and extend. It also has a couple of shortcut functions...
View ArticleSingle page application with Backbone.js on Rails
If you want to start a single page application (SPA) with a heavy front-end interface and you don’t have time to build your own Javascript MVC – you should definitely choose Backbone.js. We are...
View ArticleTest parent function calls with Jasmine for Backbone.js and write getters...
I spent about half an hour figuring out how to test a parent function call with Jasmine on code written with CoffeeScript. And, as usual, it was a stupid mistake. So, my intension was to rewrite the...
View ArticleImpressions From Full Frontal Javascript Conference 2011
Differently from other Javascript conferences, Full Frontal is supposed to be a one day conference that everyone can afford to go to. It happened in Brighton, a beautiful, small city in the South of...
View ArticleAsynchronous Template Loading With tmpload jQuery Plugin and Backbone.js
Demo Download Source I prefer keeping my “views” on the frontend side when building a Single Page Application. I use templates to update data on a certain portion of my interface. Using templates...
View ArticleSending e-mails with NodeJS and NodeMailer through Google Mail
Sending e-mails with NodeJS is almost a breeze. Almost. First, you have to plug-in the nodemailer module than set up a transport type, load the templates, add attachments and finally send… The first...
View ArticleDeploying Node apps on Amazon EC2 Micro with Stunnel and HAProxy
Recently, @cimm and me deployed a beta version of JSLogger. We encountered some unexpected issues on the IT (dark) side that delayed our launch. Load balancers and SSL support can be a pain in the as*...
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