Archive for March, 2008

• Deconstructing your web application’s performance with PageTest

  YSlow is an awesome tool. One thing I would recommend as a feature request would be to have a more verbose reporting component. Incidentally, there is a tool that was released not too long ago by a developer on the Exceptional Performance mailing list. It is called PageTest. Furthermore, PageTest uses the YSlow criteria for [...]

  March 30th, 2008

• Increasing drag/drop performance with iframes, images, and forms

  If you’re using YUI, Prototype, or MooTools and you’re building an application that involves draggable components containing iframes, images, and/or forms, here’s a quick tip to maximize performance during the onDrag event.
  Here is a code snippet of basic markup that’ll represent our draggable component.

  <div class="moduleContainer"> <div class="moduleHead">Draggable Title</div> <div class="moduleBody">Draggable Content</div> </div>

  Inside your moduleBody, you could have a plethora of component types, but [...]

  March 29th, 2008

• RockBand Drums Adventures

  If you’re just as addicted to RockBand as I am, you’ve probably YouTube’d videos of people drumming. I’ve found a few that were produced by the same guy, but this guy’s insane at the drums.
  AzuriteReaction doing Metallica -…And Justice For All

  AzuriteReaction doing Metallica – Ride The Lightning

  AzuriteReaction doing Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Maps

  The info [...]

  March 1st, 2008