When I first got wind of John Resig’s FireUnit extension for Firefox, I was very excited. JavaScript unit testing, and front-end testing in general, is an area of particular interest to me. It’s so interesting that a couple of years ago I wrote YUI Test as a way to enable front-end testing in the browser.... […]

One of the most frequently talked about performance improvements for web sites is the sharding of domains. This was one of Steve Souders’ original rules (mentioned in High Performance Web Sites) and still one of the Yahoo! Exceptional Performance guidelines. The basic problem is that browsers limit the number of parallel connections opened to a... […]

Even though we’re now a decade into professional web development, there’s still a large amount of terms and phrases being used incorrectly. Long-time readers of my blog know that communication and social interaction are things that I find fascinating, and that I’m on a constant mission to be a clearer communicator in all situations. One... […]

Last week, I was invited to attend the Mozilla Platform Summit at Mozilla headquarters in Mountain View, California. Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith, of Mozilla and Ajaxian fame, put together this event to let developers help guide the future direction of Firefox. There were around 20 attendees in total, with familiar names like John Resig... […]

One of the things I used to love when programming in more “traditional” languages such as C++ and Java was the build process. My source files just indicated what they needed in order to run successfully, and the build tool did the rest. This had the wonderful advantage of allowing you, as a programmer, to... […]

In this new Web 2.0, mashup world that the Internet has become, a lot of focus has been placed on the use of iframes for embedding third-party content onto a page. Iframes provide a level of security since JavaScript access it limited by domain name, so an iframe containing content from another site cannot access... […]

Not too long ago, I wrote about the bubble sort algorithm, which is typically the starting point for sorting algorithm instruction. Bubble sort is a pretty inefficient algorithm with O(n2) complexity and its algorithm calls for comparing each array item to its neighbor in order to “bubble” the smallest value to the top (front) of... […]

Not too long ago, I posted about creating a binary search tree in JavaScript (part 1, part 2). A binary search tree is a great place to store data in an ordered way to allow for an easy search for specific information. However, a binary search tree isn’t the only place that a binary search... […]

I’ve been continuing to experiment with web workers this past weekend and found some more interesting information. It seems that the earlier implementers, Firefox 3.5 and Safari 4, have some quirky differences in their capabilities and behaviors. I discovered this as I was trying to figure out what would happen if an error was thrown... […]

A couple weeks ago, a presentation made the rounds online about Netflix culture. The presentation featured the many benefits of working for Netflix and how the company goes about hiring (and firing) employees. While there was a lot of information about Netflix’s treatment of employees, which clearly makes Netflix an attractive place to work, the... […]