Discontinuing Web Development News Segment
by Matthew Snider · November 22, 2012 @ 3:19 a.m.
Blog Update
I am discontinuing the weekly news article segment, as there are other more dedicated sources for web development news, instead of my weekly segment of news highlights and redirects to other new sources. I will continue to occasionally run a news segment, but these will mostly be news relating to the site or commentary on some major industry news. This will allow me energies to refocus on producing new and fixing existing content. My goal is to produce an article at least once every two weeks, but hopefully more frequently than that.
If you are interested in weekly web-related news, I suggest following these newsletters:
JavaScript Weekly
HTML5 Weekly
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Web Development News Week 45, November 2012
by Matthew Snider · November 13, 2012 @ 7:25 a.m.
Web development news for the 45th week of 2012:
JavaScript
JavaScript Weekly, Issue #104 - November 9th, 2012
Writing Fast, Memory-Efficient JavaScript; Canonicalization in JavaScript; ECMAScript 6 collections, Part 3: WeakMaps; …
HTML 5
HTML 5 Weekly, Issue #62 - November 6th, 2012
Presentation: The Future of CSS Layout; HTML5 Games Faster Than Native?; Introducing TCP Listen, A New API for Chrome Packaged Apps; …
Recursive Function Performance - Static vs This
by Matthew Snider · November 6, 2012 @ 7:02 p.m.
I recently solved a recursive problem in JavaScript, using a static function instead of adding the function to the prototype of the object I was working on. The pair programmer asked me why I choose to do it that way. After a few minutes discussion, I settled on two reason why I intuitively felt static functions are faster, especially for recursion: less scope lookups and better Just-In-Time compilation (JIT) optimizations. This article describes my hypothesis ...
Web Development News Week 44, November 2012
by Matthew Snider · November 6, 2012 @ 1:48 a.m.
Web development news for the 44th week of 2012:
Updates About My Projects
For anyone playing with the Diablo 3 project, I have finished implementing a workingAll Item UI. It is still rough, but it is enough to begin exploring. I recently made a big improvement to Django Shared, where the sass_to_css command now searches for sass files, so you no longer need to specify file locations. I have also opened sourced ...
Web Development News Week 43, October 2012
by Matthew Snider · October 30, 2012 @ 2:23 a.m.
Web development news for the 43rd week of 2012:
JavaScript
JavaScript Weekly, Issue #102 - October 26th, 2012 Jster: A New Catalog of JavaScript Libraries; Bringing JavaScript Code Analysis to The Next Level; Single Page Apps in Depth (New Free Book); …HTML 5
HTML 5 Weekly, Issue #60 - October 24th, 2012 Fonts, Fabulous Fonts: How to Use The @font-face Rule With Popular Font Services; Responsive CSS Framework Comparison: Bootstrap, Foundation, ...Evaluating JavaScript Iteration Techniques
by Matthew Snider · October 25, 2012 @ 5:17 p.m.
It has been a while since we looked at the performance of various iteration techniques in JavaScript. Since most developers use a JavaScript framework nowadays, you may not even be aware of the trade-offs being made each time you call $.each or your library’s equivalent iteration function. This article describes the four most common iteration techniques and how well they perform on several browsers, and compares it to the native browser Array.prototype.forEach.
Article updated on ...
Web Development News Week 42, October 2012
by Matthew Snider · October 23, 2012 @ 5:20 a.m.
Web development news for the 42nd week of 2012:
JavaScript
JavaScript Weekly, Issue #101 - October 19th, 2012
Does JavaScript Need Classes?; Say Hello to Lineman: Tool for Bootstrapping Fat Client Webapp Projects; JavaScript Animation Tutorial with the Greensock Framework; …
HTML 5
HTML 5 Weekly, Issue #59 - October 17th, 2012
GET /browser.exe; Cache is King (for Web Site Performance); A Crash Course On CSS 'line-height'; …
Web Development News Week 41, October 2012
by Matthew Snider · October 17, 2012 @ 12:08 a.m.
Web development news for the 41st week of 2012:
JavaScript
JavaScript Weekly, Issue #100 - October 12th, 2012
DOM Enlightenment: Exploring The Relationship Between JS and the Modern HTML DOM; Categorizing Values in JavaScript; Essential JavaScript: The Top Five Testing Libraries; …
HTML 5
HTML 5 Weekly, Issue #58 - October 10th, 2012
WebPlatform.org Launches in Alpha: 'Your Web, Documented'; Using the HTML5 Fullscreen API for Phishing Attacks; Contre Jour: Behind The Scenes; …
Web Development News Week 40, October 2012
by Matthew Snider · October 10, 2012 @ 5:22 a.m.
Web development news for the 40th week of 2012:
JavaScript
JavaScript Weekly, Issue #99 - October 5th, 2012 TypeScript: Microsoft's New Language that Compiles to JavaScript; LibUV: How Node.js' Asynchronous IO Works Under the Hood; Tributary: Live Coding Environment for d3.js Visualizations; …HTML 5
HTML 5 Weekly, Issue #57 - October 3rd, 2012 HTML5 APIs You Didn't Know Existed; IE8 Falls Below 25%, Firefox 15 Passes 10%, Chrome Loses Users; CSS3 ...Diablo 3 Database Tool
by Matthew Snider · October 8, 2012 @ 4:39 a.m.
Lately, in my spare time, I have been playing Diablo 3. As my characters become more powerful, I spend more and more time scrounging the auction house looking for gear, and wondering how I stack up against other players, characters, and builds. While the game itself is well thought out, the auction house, player rewards, and community aspects seem to be tacked on at the last minute without as much forethought, and unfortunately there is ...
