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How I increased Websitez.com’s performance by an additional 20%
Performance Overview A recent project of one of our co-founders, WebsiteSuggestions.net, motivated us to take a look at our own WordPress installation and see if we could speed up our site. In this blog post I will outline a few issues that we had that I know many other people are having. When we fired [...]
Posted March 19, 2012, 3:37 pm in How To, jQuery, WordPress Tips
How To Do A JavaScript Cross-Domain POST or GET With jQuery or XMLHttpRequest
If you have spent any significant amount of time in JavaScript sending data to the server, you have probably come across the strict cross-domain policy that has been in existence since the beginning of AJAX. There are ways around this such as a proxy script, but they are all kind of a pain. Most people are unaware [...]
Posted February 16, 2012, 5:04 pm in How To, jQuery
Oh Sencha, where did you go wrong?
The last time I remember not being able to find a suitable framework from which to build a website off of was around 2000. I find myself with that feeling again with mobile development. I have tried multiple libraries, each with their pros and cons. I recently decided to dive into Sencha touch to see [...]
Posted December 29, 2011, 10:43 pm in jQuery, jQuery Mobile, Sencha Touch
jQuery Performance Tips
I just came across a great blog post linked from HN with 28 jQuery performance tips. There are a few tips from the blog post that we disagree with, but here are some of the best tips from the post: The fastest way to select an element in jQuery is by the element ID. The [...]
Posted December 14, 2011, 10:31 am in jQuery