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  • Web Programming Guest Lecture: JavaScript

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    I have once again given a JavaScript guest lecture to Zach‘s Web Programming class. This year I have taken the liberty of swiping some of Douglas Crockford’s “JavaScript: The Good Parts” presentation for the leading slides. Here’s the presentation: Javascript 2009 View more presentations from borkweb.

  • Guest Lecture: JavaScript, Ajax & DOM Manipulation

    Zach has asked me to give a JavaScript guest lecture in his Web Programming class. We’ll cover: JS basics, node manipulation, DOM traversal, AJAX, JavaScript libraries, and myPlymouth implementations of those topics. Here are the slides (get the .ppt here): Javascript: Ajax & DOM Manipulation v1.2 View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: javascript…

  • jQuery 1.1.3: Speed Improvements and Bug Fixes

    After a long wait, jQuery 1.1.3 has been released! (Download it at the jQuery site) When I first adopted jQuery a year ago, the library boasted both faster speeds and smaller size than any other JavaScript Ajax/DOM tool. With the release of jQuery’s version 1.1.2, a number of jQuery’s operations became very slow and inefficiencient,…

  • JSMin: Javascript Compression

    While at The Ajax Experience in October, I attended a presentation who spoke of the 3 C’s (Combine, Compress, Cache) for Ajax development. In the Compress section I was introduced to the beauty of JSMin! What is it? Well, shut up and I’ll tell you. Quoting Douglas Crockford (the creator of JSMin): JSMin is a…

  • Remote JavaScripting Example – Part I

    [[innerindex]]At Plymouth State we work in a multi-server environment and often wish to display dynamic content from one server in an Ajax-like fashion on another server’s website. My co-worker, Zach Tirrell, and I have drummed up a solution that works to keep our layout and logic separate, while still serving our end users in a…

  • Script.aculo.us v1.6 Released

    Great news over at Mir.aculo.us. It appears as if version 1.6 of my favorite DOM manipulation library, Script.aculo.us has been released! Thankfully the new version of Script.aculo.us uses Prototype v1.5. This is sexy because now I can revert to downloading both Prototype and Script.aculo.us right from the Script.aculo.us site. (Hooray for being lazy) Here’s an…