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 them. 
Doug is a fantastic presenter; moving through the subject matter at a good pace – [...]

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• Tags: AJAX, Doug Crockford, JSLint, performance

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. Although he does not have very good presentational skills (to be honest, his voice almost drove [...]

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• Tags: chaining, Deep Profile, John Resig, jQuery, QUnit

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, Technorati and Twitter.
For this SMNR, there were three areas on the page that needed to [...]

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• Tags: jQuery, JSON, SMNR, web service

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 that gives very detailed breakdowns on the current market conditions. These are all listed in a [...]

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• Tags: <form>, freeze, IE6, Structured Notes, submit

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 something I had been looking for. Earlier last year I was hoping to start developing [...]

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• Tags: Blueprint, Mobile, PHP, SDK, XML, Yahoo!, YDN