Techmale

What are we testing?
As Rich Internet Application development progresses, more and more developers are moving towards the functional programming capabilities of JavaScript.
First Order Functions, Closures, Macros and Lists are becoming a mainstream method of development.
When you can tell the computer how to do it, rather that listing what it needs to do, it becomes much [...]

Fast pages and quick load times are key factors to keeping visitors on your site.
If you make them wait, they will leave.
So the speed of your JavaScript applications is crucial.
Fortunately, it turns out that JavaScript applications are ripe for performance optimization.
This requires a strong testing framework… enter JSTR.
String Concatenation Performance
A simple example of the type [...]

I have been dying to shout about this…
instead I have been waiting very patiently…
BUT now it is time to SHOUT!
JSTR(Jester) is out of the box!
JSTR is the first ‘Browser based’ (ie:Cross-browser ):

Testing
Benchmarking
Optimization

tool for javascript.
With both import & export of Test-Sets, as well as auto-generated URLs, JSTR lets you easily share your code with everyone else, [...]

I installed the Carbide.C++ IDE today, followed the tutorial instructions but got an error when I went to build the project.
Error: “bldmake returned with exit value = 2″
A little digging later and I found the solution…
Open a CMD prompt to the group folder of my project and run:
“bldmake bldfiles”
It told me that bldmake.pl was unable [...]

I use the phpinfo() function a great deal, for basic information to advanced server administration checking, so I like to have it running on all my hosts.
Unfortunately this is a great hole in my security, as this information is a gold mine for the hackers out there.
I could simply remove the file when I am [...]

Here for your delight.
A simple way to track timing in Javascript.
// TIMESTAMP Function
function timestamp(){return (new Date()).valueOf();}

// TIMER Function, wraps timing arround function call
function timer(f){
  var t1 = timestamp();
  for(var i = 0; i < 1000; i++){
    f();
  }
  var t2 = timestamp();
  return t2-t1;
}

// The function to test
var testFunc = function(){
  var v = [...]

I have been doing a lot of work on my reading software website recently. This has played havoc with my Google Analytics reports.
So I set about looking for a way to block my own hits from the results. Having done a good search for up to date techniques, it seems that a cookie and a [...]

I have been quite entertained by all the recent talk about page loading speeds, optimization and profiling (eg: YSlow), so I decided to wrap up one of my functions into a usable form for you to dissect.
I call it, onDOMLoad.
Go and have a look at the demo of onDOMLoad.
onDOMLoad is a wrapper to the code [...]

I have been using ProcessExplorer since long before Microsoft bought out SysInternals, since long long before that too, and I have found it incredibly useful.
e.g.: checking to see if my new application has a memory leak etc..
Now I have just discovered it has an even better toy-set built into it.
If you have never tried it, [...]

I like agile development, it works, but it does need some pretty clear guide lines and rules. It also needs very good testing systems to ensure no developer breaks anyones elses code.
Up until now, I have been using the same tools as everyone else.
SVN, perforce, CVS, etc… we all know this type of source control [...]