Using FireBug to Debug JavaScript
Published May 10th, 2010 Under JavaScript | Leave a Comment
A short introduction to the usage of Firebug, a Firefox add-on, to debug JavaScript code. Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of web development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.
YUI 3 Sugar
Published March 17th, 2010 Under AJAX, Open Source Tools | Leave a Comment
YUI engineer Todd Kloots presents an indispensable introduction to YUI 3’s powerful suite of tools.
Embracing Collaboration with JRuby and JavaScript
Published March 10th, 2010 Under JavaScript, Open Source Tools | Leave a Comment
As web developers, we live in an arranged marriage with JavaScript. What is a Rubyist to do? Use JavaScript as a compile target? Abstract it away on the server? With JRuby, we can embrace the shared language of the web in a compelling way, building reusable libraries that work across the client-server boundary. By bridging Ruby to JavaScript using Rhino, we gain shared databases, including their indexing strategies. We gain remote model discovery and shared client/server validation. We gain a shared query language. And because it is JavaScript, we gain the entire web community as collaborators.