The Technical Debt

I have spent the last few days at work doing some intense refactoring of a seemingly complex jQuery plug-in. I managed to cut it down by 140 lines and speed it up immensely. Whilst it would have saved time if I had written the plug-in myself in the first place, I cannot be expected to … 

 

Sorting Elements with jQuery

Whilst refactoring a jQuery plugin today, I came across a method that placed a list item into an unordered list at a specific point, so that all the items remained in alphabetic order. This long method seemed completely convoluted and slow to me and I decided that there must be an easier way to keep … 

 

Easier Cross Browser Testing

Every web developer will spend a sufficient chunk of their time testing and fixing webpages so that they work across as many browsers as possible. We all groan at the mention of IE6, which is here to stay for a little while yet, even with the various efforts to change that.

 

Is Atlas So New?

Slipping musically into my twitter stream earlier this morning came an excited remark by John Resig. He seemed all hyped about the new Atlas product from 280 North that they announced at Future of Web Apps, Miami. Given John’s reputation in web development, I immediately followed the link and watched the introductory video on the …