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Video: High Performance at Massive Scale – Lessons learned at Facebook
An interesting video explaining how Facebook faced the scaling problem
The Video
(Windows media player only)
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Zen HTML and CSS coding, and how to install it on Windows with E Text-Editor
Zen coding is one of the new cool kid presently, if you haven’t heard of it I would suggest your read this article from smashing magazine or look at this video presentation.
Basically it enables you to create HTML from CSS snippet. It might not sound powerful at first, but when you start playing with, some wonderful things happen in your head (with no drugs). Let’s look at a simple example, let’s say you want a header with an id and a class followed by a list element. Here what you would do with zen:
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div#header.home>ul>li*3
You do Apple-E (CTRL-E in win) and you get:
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<div id="header" class="home">
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<ul>
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<li></li>
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<li></li>
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<li></li>
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</ul>
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</div>
There is much more about Zen, but this is…
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Friday video: State of jQuery 09
Okay, I know, this is a slide not a video, bit it is still interesting!
A quick overview of the past year of jQuery and a look towards the upcoming year.
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Friday Video: An In-Depth Look at jQuery UI with Paul Baukus
jQuery UI is a very powerful tool, it is unfortunate that the core alone is heavier than the actual library it is based on. This video is a very good look at what you can do with jQuery UI.
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Friday video: John Resig at JSconf 2009
“John Resig presents his mystery topic, which is actually three topics that strike his interest. First up is measuring performance and a quick introduction to benchmarking (and its positives and negatives). This is followed by JavaScript Games which he unveils some super cool hidden functionality (cheat codes++) on the jQuery web site. This is followed up by the introduction of John’s distributed continuous test framework platform, Test Swarm. It is jam packed with Nirvana and goodness so be sure to watch both parts.”
I wish I could have gone at JSconf
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Friday video: The dom is a mess
This week video is from John Resig, the creator of jQuery, in this talk he explains how the DOM makes our life a little more annoying.
Articles
Some Tweets
- Confoo schedule is out! my talk, jquery spaghetti, will be thursday 13:30! Right after lunch!
- The Open Web Needs You Now http://t.co/KclGKezj
- jquery validation engine 2.5.1 release is coming, some bugfixs in there, you can already grab it from github raw download
- really nice backbone patterns resource, http://t.co/FQLYcoZV
- the best news reader app for android tablet @pulsepad , a joy to read on, no need for all those websites app now..
- Interestingly enough, my fellow developers that had a looked at @weddingdeck app stayed longer than my wedding clients target userbase
