Aaron Hopkins, a software engineer for Google has a kick ass article on Optimizing Page Load Time. His techniques are really dead simple and can dramatically make your web applications load quickly.
I am currently working on a presentation that is aimed at convincing a client group that Flex/Flash is the correct technology platform for one of their upcoming projects. I have a collection of my own ideas, but I was wondering if anyone could point me to some good and convincing support materials (other than Flash penetration numbers)? Thanks in advance!
How to be an XCoder is a free open-source book by Bert Altenburg, Alex Clarke and Philippe Mougin that will help you learn Objective-C with Xcode. If you have ever had any interest in writing desktop applications for OSX, this may be a good place to start.
Well I’m back from a nice one week visit to the “Happiest Place on Earth” and a flood of post should follow! Disneyland was amazing. It had been 15 years since my last visit and I must admit that it gets better as you get older! My 4 year old son had a blast and went on rides that even Mom and Dad were hesitant to ride on (Splash Mountain was his favorite).
SimplePie is a sweet PHP class that make it super easy and fast to add RSS and Atom parsing to your web apps. The class grabs content, parses and optionally caches the results.
I don’t use Ma.gnolia for my public bookmarking, but the Ma.gnolia Roots tool is very cool. Roots is a bookmarklet that when clicked will show you what Ma.gnolia users think of the page you are visiting. The bookmarklet makes extensive use of the DOM to present the results in a useful manner. As DOM manipulation is used, you never actually leave the page you were visiting.
Mark this in the very cool utilities category - Media Convert is a web based tool that will convert files from one format to another. The lists of files it can handle is impressive:
MP3 WMV 3GP AMR FLV SWF AMV MOV WMA AVI MPG MP4 DivX MPEG4 iPOD PSP OGG WMA AAC MP4 MPC MMF QCP KAR MIDI REALAUDIO FLAC JPG PSD DOC PDF RTF TXT ODG ODP ODS ODT SXW WK1 MDB XLS VOB
… and that is to just name a few! So now when somebody sends you a file that you just can’t open, check this site to see if they can do something with it for you!
Ever tried explaining RSS to a client and always feel like they never “get” it? How to explain RSS the Oprah way is a great article that explains RSS in very simple language. With this in hand, you could probably even explain it to your mom!
Jack Slocum offers some 3 Easy Steps to Avoid JavaScript Memory Leaks. This article offers three great tips and an overview of using Leak Monitor to detect places where your JavaScript may be leaking.
9 JavaScript Tips You May Not Know. Wow I didn’t know half of these!
