Tavs Dokkedahl has created a set of Date methods which people might find helpful in his JSLab standard libary. Included are Date.getISOWeek, Date.setISOWeek, getFirstDateInWeek, Date.isLeapYear, and Date.format which works like the PHP equivalent. In addition the library also includes other useful functions for Array, Math, Number, Function and other objects.
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Being able to have your documents stored up in the cloud, but also saved away for the time where you don’t have connectivity is important, and today the Google Docs team supports local service via Google Gears. I have been using this ability for awhile, and I have personally seen a couple of side effects: I boot […]
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There are some bleeding edge releases in the world of the Firebug. A new alpha version of Firebug 1.2 is available for testing. It has several performance improvements, and some new UI. Give it a go and report any issues. Also, ChromeBug takes Firebug into the world of debugging full Firefox extensions. It depends on the alpha […]
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Ten years ago today, the code dropped from Netscape to the Mozilla project. Mitchell Baker has written up her thoughts as she looks back the last 10 years, and tries to look at the future. People are celebrating too. Air Mozilla will have a live show with host Asa Dotzler, and guests Mitchell Baker, Brendan […]
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Mario Heiderich of Ormigo has created a jQuery based code snippet/bookmarklet that is capable of detecting floating errors and adding a dotted orange border to elements which should be cleared - but aren’t. It saved me a huge bunch of time debugging complex layouts for all browsers - especially IE6. If jQuery isn’t already loaded […]
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We love to showcase good uses of Ajax, but sometimes you have to show the anti-patterns too. Hema is a dutch company that recently tried to revamp their online site, but went a little too far.
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I missed the Microsoft Research paper on Doloto: Code Splitting for Network-Bound Web 2.0 Applications:Modern Web 2.0 applications, such as GMail, Live Maps, Facebook and many others, use a combination of Dynamic HTML, JavaScript and other Web browser technologies commonly referred as AJAX to push page generation and content manipulation to the client web browser. […]
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PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: TheRulesAre(function() { with(this) { a(Player).mayNot(’buyProperty’).unless(function(player, property) { return property.owner === null && player.funds>= property.price; }); a(Property).mayNot(’addHouse’).when(it().isMortgaged());}}); Composing DSLs in JavaScript is James Coglan’s latest perusal into fun with JavaScript and DSLs. He walks through the building of this DSL in a step by […]
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There has beern a lot of great Comet content recently, especially from Comet Daily of course 
First, they gazed at their own Comets talking about maturity, together with a maturity grid. Since the project leads and vendors are grading themselves, you have to do due diligence Joe Walker has written up 3 styles of API […]
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The Dojo team has released version 1.1 which includes from over 800 improvements: An easy to use and significantly improved Dojo API Viewer with some seriously great features, including the ability to easily find the original definition of a method that is “mixed-in” A growing collection of demos, tutorials, and articles A new BorderContainer Dijit, which is a […]
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