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 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 thinking about removing the category navigation system on this site and replacing it with a tag cloud.
So I obviously hit google first to find out a bit more… i.e.: is it possible.
Nice quick answer to that, yes, if you have version 2.3 or above. Cool.
But then I got into reading everyones comments [...]

The Background
Last week I discovered I had quite a few viruses etc.. on my laptop. So I needed to reformat the hard-drive and re-install WindowsXP before I started my new job.
Now before I did all this, I made sure I had a complete back-up of everything off the machine. NB: this is my main development [...]