Monthly Archives: February 2009

Doug Crockford on AJAX Performance

Posted on February 24, 2009 by Mike

Watched an interesting screencast yesterday on AJAX Performance, by Doug Crockford. This was one of a series of videos that he has produced on the subject and from what I’ve seen so far, I plan on watching the rest of … Continue reading →

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Advanced jQuery

Posted on February 17, 2009 by Mike

This afternoon I came across a good set of screencasts that were captured from a recent Web Developer’s conference in September of last year. The first one I took a look at was one by John Resig, creator of jQuery. … Continue reading →

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Using JSON with a callback parameter

Posted on February 17, 2009 by Mike

While working on a Social Media News Release (SMNR) for Doritos on Friday, I found out a very useful parameter to use when making JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) calls to a remote web service, which just happened to be YouTube, … Continue reading →

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No form? No probem. No submit button? IE6 hangs!

Posted on February 12, 2009 by Mike

I came across a rather curious IE6 bug today on the RBC Structured Notes Web site we developed here at iStudio. First, a bit of a background. The RBC SN Web site, among other things, displays Notes pages to investors … Continue reading →

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Blueprint – A first look

Posted on February 11, 2009 by Mike

A pretty slow day in the office allowed me to take a look at a fairly new mobile SDK framework called Blueprint, that is offered by the Yahoo! Developer Network . At first glance this looks pretty good and was … Continue reading →

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