In today’s world, performance really matters. Developers need to be able to accurately measure the performance of their software. For those who work on the web, the W3C has a brand new API for reliably keeping time. That API is the High Resolution Time API. This article will explore the High Resolution Time API, and show how to use it.
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Other APIs

• Navigation Timing API: How to Profile Page Loads Efficiently
• JavaScript and HTML5 Gaming: From Angry Birds to ZX Spectrum

In previous articles, I’ve focused on creating a Node.js server to handle HTTP requests. This article looks at the problem in reverse, by showing you how to make HTTP requests from your Node.js applications. You may be asking yourself why you would want to do that. Two applications come to mind right away – web scraping and proxying. Scrapers are pieces of software which download web pages and programatically extract information from them. Proxy servers act as intermediaries, forwarding client requests to other servers and returning the responses.
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Other Node.js

• HTTP Authentication in Node.js
• Creating a HTTP Server in Node.js
• Cloud Deployment of Node.js Applications with Nodejitsu
• Accessing the File System in Node.js
• An Introduction to Node.js

SeaBattle is an HTML5 game that demonstrates the usefulness of HTML5′s Audio, Canvas, and Web Storage APIs. This article completes our five-part gaming series covering SeaBattle by exploring its draw() and allResourcesLoaded() functions. It also reviews these APIs, by discussing game enhancements, and by examining SeaBattle in a mobile context.
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Other Gaming

• Gaming: Battle on the High Seas, Part 2
• Gaming: Battle on the High Seas, Part 3
• Gaming: Battle on the High Seas, Part 1
• Gaming: Battle on the High Seas, Part 4

String trimming is one of the most common tasks that programmers deal with. Trimming functions remove whitespace from the beginning and/or end of a string. Native support for trimming was introduced in JavaScript 1.8.1, meaning that they were not part of Internet Explorer prior to IE9. This article will show you how to trim, and how you can build more flexible and powerful trimming functions.
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Other Raw Javascript

• How to Create Custom Events in JavaScript
• Modular Design Patterns: Private, Privileged, and Protected Members in JavaScript
• Testing for Empty Values
• Adding Micro-Constructors to a Modular Design Pattern
• Five Useful Functions Missing in Javascript

There was a time when JavaScript Accessibility simply meant ensuring graceful degradation when JavaScript was unavailable. But, since the explosion of Ajax and Rich Internet Applications, JavaScript isn’t just used for non-essential usability enhancements. JavaScript is now the core of web-based applications, so when we talk about JavaScript accessibility today, we mean that the JavaScript itself is accessible.
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Other Raw Javascript

• Modular Design Patterns: Private, Privileged, and Protected Members in JavaScript
• Five Useful Functions Missing in Javascript
• How to Create Custom Events in JavaScript
• Adding Micro-Constructors to a Modular Design Pattern
• Testing for Empty Values

For years, JavaScript has had very limited access to the file system. Of course, for most of its life, JavaScript lived in the browser. For a web scripting language, accessing the file system was considered a major security risk. Front end developers have been forced to make due with cookies, web storage, ActiveX, Flash, and other technologies. HTML5 brought about the file system API, but it remains largely unsupported outside of Chrome. With the advent of Node.js, JavaScript began to gain footing as a legitimate server-side language. On the server, file system accesses are a regular occurrence, making the thought of an API much less concerning.
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Other Node.js

• Making HTTP Requests in Node.js
• HTTP Authentication in Node.js
• Creating a HTTP Server in Node.js
• Cloud Deployment of Node.js Applications with Nodejitsu
• An Introduction to Node.js

Last week, our gaming series dug deeper into SeaBattle’s architecture by discussing the SeaBattle object’s update() function along with its makeShip(x, y, bound1, bound2) constructor. This is the fourth article in our five-part series, and continues to explore this architecture by covering the constructors for submarines, depth charges, torpedoes, and explosions. It also discusses intersects(r1, r2) and collision detection.
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Other Gaming

• Gaming: Battle on the High Seas, Part 5
• Gaming: Battle on the High Seas, Part 2
• Gaming: Battle on the High Seas, Part 1
• Gaming: Battle on the High Seas, Part 3