jQuery 1.6 and 1.6.1 are out the door. Congrats to the team and everyone that was involved with the release! A relatively controversial change in 1.6 was regarding how attributes and DOM object properties were handled. In 1.6 we wanted to take the major step of completely separating the two, allowing us to create an […]
Comment · Posted: May 13th, 2011
Today I’m announcing a major change in my life: I’m leaving Mozilla Corporation and joining Khan Academy. I joined the Mozilla Corporation in January of 2007, just over 4+ years ago, as a JavaScript Evangelist. During my time at the company I had an amazing opportunity to promote JavaScript. It’s been an incredible experience working […]
Comment · Posted: May 3rd, 2011
I’ve created a simple tool for landing pull requests from Github, which I’m calling “Pulley“. Landing a pull request from Github can be annoying. You can follow the instructions provided by Github (pulling the code, doing a merge) but that’ll result in a messy commit stream and external ticket trackers that don’t automatically close tickets. […]
Comment · Posted: April 21st, 2011
After my two previous posts discussing dictionary lookups in JavaScript and JavaScript Trie performance analysis even more excellent feedback came in from everyone. Out of all the results two techniques seemed to be most interesting – and promising for reducing general memory usage and load time. String-based Binary Search The first technique proposed was left […]
Comment · Posted: March 22nd, 2011
After my last post discussing dictionary lookups in JavaScript the unanimous consensus seemed to be that utilizing Trie would result in additional space savings and yield performance benefits. A Trie is a relatively simple data structure. At its simplest form you’re building a tree-like structure where each final leaf results in a complete word. This […]
Comment · Posted: March 17th, 2011
I’ve been working on a browser-based word game, naturally written in JavaScript, and have been encountering some interesting technical challenges along the way. I’ve written up my thought process here for others to learn from (note that most of this happened over the course of a month, or so). I’ve often found that while a […]
Comment · Posted: March 15th, 2011
An issue popped up on Twitter this past week that caused the web site to be generally unusable for many users. It appears as if attempts to scroll were unbearably slow and caused the site to be unresponsive. The Twitter team investigated and determined that if they reverted the version of jQuery that they used […]
Comment · Posted: January 20th, 2011
The other day I saw the announcement for the new Chrome OS test laptop and decided to sign up on the off-chance that I might be able to snag one. In the request form I made it very clear that I would be attempting to use this laptop for development (easily my primary activity). Surprisingly […]
Comment · Posted: December 10th, 2010
