Be a Javascript Console Power-User
Level up on the Javascript console in the Chrome DevTools. Look at XHR requests, learn console helper functions to monitor events or explore objects better.
Tag: javascript
Backbone.js and Rails
This video discusses how to use JavaScript frameworks, particularly Backbone.js, with Rails. Web apps have been getting more JavaScript-heavy and nested piles of callbacks are no fun. Backbone is a backend-agnostic library that helps you impose an MVC flavor on your JavaScript. This talk covers the basic components of Backbone …
JavaScript Patterns and Anti-patterns
JavaScript, the language that we all laughed at and our usage of it was limited to copy/paste of scripts to have some dynamic content in a web page has all grown up. From jQuery on the client-side to node.js on the server, everywhere you look there’s JavaScript. Unfortunately there’s also …
MooTools Application Framework
A presentation of various MooTools projects and how they help with web application development. MooTools is a compact, modular, Object-Oriented JavaScript framework designed for the intermediate to advanced JavaScript developer. It allows you to write powerful, flexible, and cross-browser code with its elegant, well documented, and coherent API. MooTools code …
Evented Ruby vs Node.js
While Node.js is the hot new kid on the block, evented libraries like EventMachine for Ruby and Twisted for Python have existed for a long time. When does it make sense to use one over the other? What are the advantages and disadvantages to using node over ruby?
Crankshaft: Turbocharging the Next Generation of Web Applications
Crankshaft is a new compilation infrastructure for V8, Google Chrome\’s JavaScript engine. By using aggressive optimizations, Crankshaft dramatically improves the performance of compute-intensive JavaScript applications — often by more than a factor of two! In this presentation, you will get an insight into how we decide which functions to optimize …