Paul Irish has a nice little ‘repository’ on Github called Lazyweb-Requests. One of the ‘issues’ posted in here was regarding a JavaScript performance chart of various browsers based on the SunSpider performance test suite. Basically in this request he suggests that we should update this chart to include browsers such as IE6 and IE7 to show the huge scale of JavaScript performance differences we as web developers have to deal with. With all of the new browser versions that has …

Building an Air application with HTML, CSS and JavaScript has it’s challenges and specifically when it comes to windowing features such as minimizing an application to the system tray and adding menu items to the system tray icon. In this quick tip, I will show you how to accomplish these.

By now you have most likely either worked with or are looking for the first opportunity to try out CoffeeScript and find out what it is all about. But what is CoffeeScript anyway? From the CoffeeScript site:

CoffeeScript is a little language that compiles into JavaScript. Underneath all of those embarrassing braces and semicolons, JavaScript has always had a gorgeous object model at its heart. CoffeeScript is an attempt to expose the good parts of JavaScript in a simple way.

I agree, …

A couple of weeks ago I read an article on ThinkVitamin covering useful developer apps for the iPad. I myself have chosen the Android route when I purchased my Motorola Xoom a couple of months ago so, I decided to go on the hunt for similar apps that will fill the same needs on Android. Turns out there is a bunch available. Below is a list of apps available on the Android market.

1. File Expert

If you are going to edit …

Design Patterns are invaluable in software development. They typically result from best practices that has been demonstrated to be the best way to solve common problems. They also help developers avoid common pitfalls that lead to bugs and generally, makes your code more readable and reusable.

Design patterns is no stranger in the world of JavaScript and developers employ many of the well known patterns as well as adding some that is uniquely it’s own. Today I am going to be looking at the …