http://www.rockstarapps.com/wordpress Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:22:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have been asked to be a judge on a new web performance contest that is being run by Keynote Systems.  Over the last two plus years I have been building tools that make optimizing web applications as simple as a button click.  Others in the web performance community have ... http://www.rockstarapps.com/wordpress/?p=149 Seeing the feature list for the latest version of IE (8), I was excited to download it and get started exploring one feature in particular - that was the new XDomainRequest object. The XDomainRequest object gives developers the ability to access resources outside of the original application's host domain (www.rockstarpps.com ... http://www.rockstarapps.com/wordpress/?p=147 Since October I have immersed myself in understanding what Clouds and Content Distribution Networks (CDNs) can do for Web Application developers. Many of the people I know have deployed or are looking to applications on a Cloud infrastructure this year.  Just yesterday, I was talking to a company that I ... http://www.rockstarapps.com/wordpress/?p=138 Over the last few months I have been working on getting the latest version of jsLex coded, packaged and tested.  A few weeks ago, I wrote up my thoughts on the new release 2009 will be a Rockstar year. If you want to check out the features in the new ... http://www.rockstarapps.com/wordpress/?p=131 I just read on news.ycombinator.com via Eric.Weblog via Z trek that the Programming Magazine Dr. Dobbs will no longer be publishing it's normal monthly rag.  Click for Dr. Dobbs take.  That really stinks.  Even though I don't read it regularly any more.  When I started my first full-time job back ... http://www.rockstarapps.com/wordpress/?p=130 Thanks to everyone! One of my apdictions is Google Analytics and over the last several days I have noticed an up tick in amount of traffic the jsLex tool has been getting. This is a result of two recent posts; Kevin Hackman of Aptana linked to the jsLex tool in a news ... http://www.rockstarapps.com/wordpress/?p=129 Over the last three years a tremendous effort has been made in the area of Ajax.  Toolkits, documentation, best practices, tools and tons and tons of applications have been created to make it easier for people to take advantage of Ajax in their own projects.   You can look around ... http://www.rockstarapps.com/wordpress/?p=121 It's been awhile since I last Blogged on rockstarapps.com.  In between my last Blog on May 26th and Today, I have been spending much of my time working on building the dojo.E library and traveling around the world (Koren, San Fransisco).  This week is the Ajax Experience Conference, which is ... http://www.rockstarapps.com/wordpress/?p=119 Web performance has been a topic I have been working on for quite some time now. While building Nexaweb's Ajax library we ran into and solved many challenges that developers will face while developing their own Ajax applications. Most of my effort has been around JavaScript performance and Ajax's impact ... http://www.rockstarapps.com/wordpress/?p=115 The other day on TechCrunch was an article about Microsoft’s Popfly Mashup builder getting a game creator interface. Previously, I looked at Popfly for building Mashups but didn’t get past the Wack-a-mole Mashup, so this time I figured I would get the only person I know who has created ... http://www.rockstarapps.com/wordpress/?p=109