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Posts Tagged ‘javascript’

Keeping the music going

I love listening to last.fm’s similar artist radio stations. I constantly forget that the music I am listening to is coming from one of my Firefox tabs, and will accidentally close it from time to time, stopping whatever music is playing.
I decided to fix this for myself using a ridiculously short Greasemonkey script, using the [...]

Helping jQuery Out

I’ve made a commitment to myself to start helping out with some of my favorite open source projects. I’ve started helping in my own little way by hanging out in the jQuery IRC channel. It’s not much effort and I’ve already helped a few people, which feels good. I’m ‘mncaudill’ in there, so feel free [...]

jQuery: a new joy

At work, I have been working on somewhat complex site with a lot of Javascript going on in the form of some ajax calls and Google Maps. We noticed that the site had an almost painful load time, approximately 8 seconds for a fresh pull of the home page. This was too much.
The first [...]