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QN: Things You Might Not Know About jQuery

Riyad Kalla — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 20:47:27 +0000

jQuery is a very popular JavaScript library used to make writing JavaScript-enabled sites easier; handy shortcuts and pre-defined functions that do popular things and all. David Flanagan (author of jQuery Pocket Reference) has put together 5 tips about jQuery that you most likely didn’t know. My favorite one is the use of namespaces when it [...]

AreWeFastYet – Popular JavaScript Engine Performance Compared

Riyad Kalla — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:20:19 +0000

I recently became aware of the site AreWeFastYet via a tweet from jQuery’s creator, John Resig. The site is a Mozilla-maintained property that benchmarks the most popular JavaScript engines against each other using both the WebKit SunSpider and Google’s v8bench JavaScript benchmarks every day. The JavaScript engines benchmarked are: Mozilla’s JavaScript Engine (black – labelled “moz [...]

Google Celebrates 25 Years of the Buckyball With Helacious Markup

Riyad Kalla — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 07:37:09 +0000

If you are checking out Google today with a modern browser (Firefox, Chrome and Safari all work) you’ll see a slick animated buckyball draw itself in the place of the second “o” in the word “Google”. The cool part is that it’s interactive, you can mouse over it and spin it in any direction you [...]

10 Amazing Examples of JavaScript and HTML5

Riyad Kalla — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:17:45 +0000

Zef.me put together a list of 10 amazing JavaScript/HTML examples that a lot of people (me included) thought still required Flash to do. Some of the highlights is an accurate (and performant) interactive cloth simulation by Andrew Hoyer. You can drag any node on the “cloth” around and have it’s 3D skeleton realistically react to the interaction; [...]

AJAX SHA-1/256/384/512 Hash Generator Released

Riyad Kalla — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 07:55:13 +0000

In addition to the other handy AJAX-enabled utilities we released, we’ve just added a SHA (1, 256, 384 and 512) generator utility to the collection. Enjoy!

Slick JavaScript Color Picker Utility

Riyad Kalla — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 05:49:43 +0000

I find myself on Google searching for “color picker“s a lot more often than I ever thought I would; you really never anticipate how often you want to double-check how a color looks, or what it’s hex code is when you are messing with CSS. Dion Almaer tweeted a link to a great JavaScript color [...]

Amazing HTML5 Canvas / JavaScript Animation Examples

Riyad Kalla — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 13:56:15 +0000

Hakim El Hattab has put together a series of HTML5 Canvas animation examples on his website, hakim.se that are fantastic showcases of how animation-friendly HTML5 is on it’s own without Flash. Right now the use of Canvas is still relatively new and raw, but as the years tick on and more and more HTML5-capable browsers [...]

HTML5 Drag and Drop Upload and File API Tutorial

Riyad Kalla — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 21:15:32 +0000

Update #3: Using the techniques outlined in this article I have rolled out and initial release of imgscalr.com. Feel free to download the JS source (it is heavily commented) and take a look at how it was rolled out. Unfortunately the required File API support is only in Chrome and Firefox currently, Safari gets it [...]

Use IHeaderResponse.renderJavaScript(CharSequence,String) to Avoid Duplicates

Riyad Kalla — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:57:51 +0000

Apace Wicket Quick Tip If you are working with multiple AjaxEventBehavior‘s (like AjaxFormSubmitBehavior and AjaxFormValidatingBehavior) on similar components in a Page and you are using IHeaderResponse.renderJavaScript(CharSequence) it’s possible you are contributing duplicate JavaScript over and over again to the header section of your Page unecessarily. As it turns out, by simply changing to use the IHeaderResponse.renderJavaScript(CharSequence,String) [...]

ZK 3.5.1 Released – RIA Framework, NetBeans Plugin and Tutorial

Ray Gomez — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:47:51 +0000

This past week ZKoss refreshed their flagship product, ZK, to version 3.5.1. If you haven’t heard of ZK before, it is a very slick framework which was “designed to maximize enterprise operation efficiency and minimize the development cost [with] its groundbreaking Direct RIA architecture. ” Unlike most marketing ploys used to overstate the capabilities of [...]

Netflix Releases Developer API, Surprisingly Powerful

Riyad Kalla — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:52:43 +0000

Netflix released it’s long-awaited developer API yesterday (JavaScript, REST) and to a lot of people’s surprise, was quite a bit more open-ended than expected: We’re pleased to announce the availability of the Netflix API. The team has been hard at work on this and we’re glad we can finally let people see what we’ve built. [...]

Google's Chrome Browser Process Model Explained

Riyad Kalla — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:12:08 +0000

Marc Chung has posted an in-depth analysis of Google’sChrome Browser process model. Why this is interesting is because the new process model in Chrome is one of the most powerful aspects of the browser, allowing it to render JavaScript-heavy web applications much faster without blocking the entire browser process hung in a render loop (something [...]

Tracing JavaScript Engine Coming in Firefox 3 Could Give 20-40x Performance Boost in Some Scenarios

Riyad Kalla — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:52:26 +0000

Ars has a piece up about the Tracemonkey JavaScript engine work that we will first see in Firefox 3.1 (currently in nightlies) but is the first part of major JavaScript work known as Tamarin that won’t be seen until Firefox 4.0. Apparently the Mozilla JavaScript engine is getting worked over from the ground up with [...]

JavaCC Grammar for EcmaScript

Riyad Kalla — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 13:43:44 +0000

It looks like the Dojo developers have released a JavaCC Grammar for EcmaScript, more specifically ECMA-262 Standard 3rd edition. Junior developer does a fairly good writeup about it as he’s in the middle of writing a new JavaCC book (not a feat for the weak hearted). For the folks wondering what this is, JavaCC is [...]