Dzone.com released a widget that bloggers can embed into their pages to display the number of votes that a web page currently has on Dzone.

Information on the widget can be found at http://www.dzone.com/buttons.jsp

To make it easier to embed this into your word press blog, rockstarapps.com has created a Wordpress plugin that allows you to selectively add the widget to posts. Bloggers can turn on the Dzone widget for only certain posts and override the url setting of the widget right from inside your blog post page.

To download the plugin, “Click Here”
To view documentation, “Click Here”

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—NOW WITH OPERA STATISTICS—

Being a committer on the Apache XAP project, working on Ajax applications and Mashups for rockstarapps.com, I have personally run into many performance issues with JavaScript. Finding the problems can be very challenging especially if you didn’t write all the code or code base is very large. The issues may not be with code you were writing, but assumptions you made about what was going to perform the best.

Last week I gave a presentation on “Performance Tuning Your Ajax Application” at Ajax World, which was very well attended and I would like to thank those who participated, also “You all owe me a t-shirt ”. In the presentation I went over some of the findings that I have been working on for the last year. Click here, to open an application that will run through some low level JavaScript calls to check performance on each browser. Knowing how each browser will perform on basic functionality will allow developers to create best practices for code in their JavaScript library.

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