Thurs, 27th October 2011: There are a variety of solutions for delivering fonts to your web page, and there are best practices to consider which will ensure speed and reliability when delivering web fonts. Josh Emerson will talk about implementing web fonts for cross browser support. Read more…
About Aron Carroll
Aron is a front end web developer from Brighton, UK
#31: An Introduction to JavaScript Events
Thurs, 25th August 2011: Events, also known as the publish/subscribe pattern, are a common idiom used throughout JavaScript. Used within your own code they can help keep your objects modular, reusable and easily extensible. Read more…
#27: CoffeeScriptease
Thurs, 23rd June 2011: CoffeeScript is a little language built upon JavaScript designed to disguise its quirks and help you write terse, readable and maintainable code. Its documentation describes it as “an attempt to expose the good parts of JavaScript in a simple way”.
What makes this particularly interesting to anyone who uses JavaScript in their day to day life is the impact that CoffeeScript is having on the JavaScript language itself as proposals are being made to add CoffeeScript features into JavaScript. Read more…
#26: Making History
Thurs, 9th June 2011: The HTML5 History API lets you create websites and apps that modify the URL in the browser’s location bar without causing the page to reload. This is great for loading in parts of a site dynamically while keeping the URL up-to-date. This lets users continue to bookmark and share links, allows search engines to index the content, and provides a more responsive experience by only loading in new content as needed. Read more…
#23: Micro Frameworks
Thurs 14th April, 2011: For this Async, we’ll take a look at a few of these micro frameworks and talk about the pros and cons of using them in your sites. We hope you’ll bring along your own frameworks that you’ve written, been using or even just earmarked out of curiosity. Read more…
#18: Patterns for Performance
Thurs 10th Feb, 2011: There are many challenges to developing a streamlined JavaScript application and, depending on the type of app being created, there may be bottlenecks to its performance. It is important to understand which kinds of bottleneck can apply in any given situation and focus time on addressing them, instead of less critical issues.
In this session with Premasagar Rose, we’ll look at a number of techniques that you can start using in your application development straight away. Read more…
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