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Speed up access to your favorite frameworks via the AJAX Libraries API
via Google AJAX Search API Blog by Dion Almaer on May 26, 2008
Google engineers spend a lot of time working on speeding up their Web applications. Performance is a key factor for our teams, and we recognize how important it is for the entire Web.When you take a look at the effort that it takes to setup work that should be simple, such as caching shared JavaScript libraries, you quickly realize that the Web could be faster than it currently is.The AJAX...
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Ext Scaffold Generator Plugin for Rails
via Ajaxian by Dion Almaer on January 22, 2008
Martin Rehfeld has released a Rails plugin that generates Ext JS scaffoldsThe Ext Scaffold Generator Plugin provides a custom MIME type alias :ext_json to be able to handle requests from the Ext frontend separately. The generated controllers show how to do this.To make data delivery to the Ext frontend easy, the plugin extends the Array and ActiveRecord::Base classes to provide a to_ext_json...
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Blogger Now an OpenID Provider
via Googlified by Haochi on January 18, 2008
When Blogger enabled OpenID commenting on Blogger blogs, they hinted on their blog that the
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Quickly Switch Google Accounts with the Google Account Multi-Login [Featured Greasemonkey User Script]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on January 10, 2008
Firefox with Greasemonkey: Free Greasemonkey user script Google Account Multi-Login adds a simple drop-down menu to Google pages (including Gmail) for quick switching between your different user accounts. Just install the script, reload the
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jQuery Release 1.2.6: Performance Improvements and Dimensions Plugin Added to Core
via Ajaxian by Dietrich Kappe on June 02, 2008
A new release of jQuery is out — 1.2.6, skipping directly from 1.2.3. Most noteworthy are the performance improvements (you can check out the detailed performance data via this Google Spreadsheet). The headlines on improvements:Event handling: 103%CSS selectors: 13%.offset: 21%.css: 25%Lots of other fixes, but the most important, IMHO, is the inclusion of Brandon Aaron’s Dimension’s plugin...
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URLs are People, Too
via Google Code Blog by DeWitt Clinton on January 31, 2008
By Brad Fitzpatrick, Software EngineerSo you've just built a totally sweet new social app and you can't wait for people to start using it, but there's a problem: when people join they don't have any friends on your site. They're lonely, and the experience isn't good because they can't use the app with people they know. You could ask them to search for and add all their...
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TwitterLove: Applying the Social Graph API
via ProgrammableWeb by John Musser on February 17, 2008
Want to visualize someone’s “following” list on Twitter? Thanks to this creative application of the Google Social Graph API you can. Even though Social Graph API was just released a couple weeks ago it didn’t take long before creative developers began seeing ways to put it to use. And as you can see in our TwitterLove profile the application uses 2 other APIs including the Twitter API to...
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Improving Code Readability With CSS Styleguides
via Smashing Magazine by Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz on May 01, 2008
Once your latest project is finished, you are very likely to forget the structure of the layout, numerous classes as well as the color scheme you’ve used in the project. In CSS-files sensible structuring can drastically reduce complexity, improve code management and consequently simplify maintainability. However, how can you achieve sensible structuring? Well, there are a number of options. For...
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