Tag Archives: JavaScript

Steve Souders Releases Hammerhead, Firebug Extension

Improving performance starts with metrics. How long does it take for the page to load? Seems like a simple question to answer, but gathering accurate measurements can be a challenge. Enter Hammerhead, Steve Sounder’s latest Firebug extension. Continue reading

Google Maps Component for Ext-JS

Shea Frederick has created a user-defined extension to integrate Google Maps with ExtJS. Continue reading

Improving Performance by Combining Scripts and CSS

According to the Yahoo! performance team, the best way to improve your web site’s performance is to reduce the number of requests for assets such as scripts, style sheets and images. One way to accomplish this is by combining all … Continue reading

To Love One’s Craft: Fun with grep and RegEx…

I just read an interesting post by Dave Nelson (spugbrap) in which he details all the fun he had writing a script to search through Ext JS source code and open it with Textpad. So, I checked the TextPad help … Continue reading

Douglas Crockford: “The State of Ajax” Talk

Watch this video of Douglas Crockford’s “The State of Ajax” talk on Yahoo Developer Network theater.

So What’s Ajax All About?

Here is a list of resources about Ajax compiled in the last few months: Introduction to Ajax: Understanding Ajax, a productive approach to building Web sites, and how it works – IBM.com Adaptive Path Article: Ajax: A New Approach to … Continue reading