Monthly Archives: October 2009

YUI Doc

I am presenting on YUI Doc tomorrow at YUIConf. This is an excellent language neutral tool for generating documentation from comments, I highly recommend you check it out. I cover the tool, some pest practices, etc. I’ll post the video as soon as its available, but in the meantime I have create a project on [...]

Jobs at Yahoo!

Yahoo! is looking for a few good frontend engineers…and I’m looking for one of them. Check it out, send a resume, come work for us!

Awesome on OS X, Ratpoison on RHEL 5: Staying focused

I spend a lot of time trying to stay focused on the task at hand. But with the joys of multitasking I generally have a lot of crap going on the desktop. Several documents open in text mate, an IM conversation and multiple tabs in the terminal: So I am always looking for ways to [...]

LZW Compression in Javascript: Why not?

I enjoyed this very interesting post on ydn. The post is about the benefit of reducing the number of packets, not just the total file size. More interesting to me was this small note: If your app sends largish amounts of data upstream (excluding images, which are already compressed), consider implementing client-side compression. It’s possible [...]