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Why Page Speed Isn't Enough

Betfair has completed a ground-up re-write of our Sports betting web platform. We focused on the fundamentals of resiliency and performance. We...

0 replies - 2800 views - 11/06/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

How to Display a Scatter Chart in ExtJS 3.4

 You want to display a scatter chart in ExtJS 3.4.SolutionUse the Ext.chart.Chart class, and make the lines invisible.DiscussionThis example works by...

0 replies - 1311 views - 11/05/12 by Daniel Bartl in Articles

Weekly Poll: Sans JVM?

A few weeks ago, we asked which programming language you'd use if Java weren't an option. JVM languages, especially Scala and Groovy, were the overwhelming...

6 replies - 7096 views - 11/02/12 by Bill Armstrong in Articles

J2EE is Dead: Long-live Javascript Backed by JSON Services

Hello, my name is Brian O'Neill, and I've been J2EE free for almost 8 years now.   A long time ago in a blog post far away, I asked the question "Is...

20 replies - 13037 views - 10/29/12 by Brian O' Neill in Articles

Hello, ClojureScript! (with jQuery)

I decided to give ClojureScript a try. It did not come easy, because I found the official documentation somewhat complicated. I know there is...

0 replies - 1876 views - 10/25/12 by Konrad Garus in Articles

Experiment: Build Your Own Stock Market AI

I had an interesting idea last night. I'm not saying it is a good idea - my brain is having some serious weirdness going on with the seven hour time...

0 replies - 1728 views - 10/17/12 by Raymond Camden in Articles

Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good Code?

We need to understand what happens to code over time and why, and what a healthy, long-lived code base looks like. What architectural decisions have the...

1 replies - 8133 views - 10/15/12 by Jim Bird in Articles

LLJS: Low-Level Javascript - A C-Like Typed Dialect of Javascript

LLJS is a typed dialect of JavaScript that offers a C-like type system with manual memory management. It compiles to JavaScript and lets you write...

0 replies - 2863 views - 10/12/12 by Hirvesh Munogee in Articles

Cage Match! Sencha Touch vs. jQuery Mobile

Have you gotten the mandate from the higher-ups to write a cross-platform mobile app and you just don't have time to learn the skills for building native...

8 replies - 12684 views - 10/12/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Lines of Code is a Bad Metric, Either Way

The Dropbox team had a post explaining their decision to use CoffeeScript instead of JavaScript and, in particular, re-writing their existing codebase in...

0 replies - 1819 views - 10/11/12 by Krishna Kumar in Articles

How I Unit Test the Document Object Model

How I Unit Test in jQuery  I created a function that will add arbitrary html to the DOM and remove it immediately after my test has run. This is what...

0 replies - 1986 views - 10/10/12 by Justin Bozonier in Articles

Two of My Favorite Javascript Design Patterns

The content of this article was originally written by David Morrow over at the New Relic blog. So you write JavaScript. That’s pretty much a given for...

0 replies - 4459 views - 10/10/12 by Leigh Shevchik in Articles

The Pros and Cons of JavaScript and jQuery

This article was written by the Imaginovation team.  They are a Raleigh web design and software development company who uses .NET,...

7 replies - 10374 views - 10/10/12 by Michael Georgiou in Articles

TypeScript: Microsoft’s New Take on Javascript, from the Creator of C#

Microsoft started October with a bang, unveiling Anders Hejlsberg’s newest creation: TypeScript, a superset of Javascript aimed at making the language’s...

3 replies - 6244 views - 10/02/12 by Eric Gregory in Articles

A Simple TODO Application in Dart

Dart is a new language for building web applications. Though it’s still a technology preview, the Dart platform is already mature...

0 replies - 1638 views - 09/30/12 by Victor Savkin in Articles