Back in April, Eli Cochran and I organized a half-day workshop on JavaScript development techniques at the JA-SIG Spring conference in St. Paul, MN. Writing Fearless Javascript for Portlets, Widgets, and Portals was designed to give attendees a primer on various aspects of client-side user interface development, including JavaScript fundamentals, the use of toolkits [...]

Following up on Antranig’s recent post about performance, I’d like to address the issue of code design and its relationship to performance. Antranig’s article is very comprehensive and well-considered, and it provides us with a number of guidelines for balancing the tradeoffs between code quality and speed. However, I was surprised that he didn’t remind [...]