A Programmer's Perspective

Image Preloading Optimization

Jason — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 23:45:33 +0000

If you find yourself needing to load many images for your web application there are some things you must consider in order to achieve maximum performance. WTF am I doing?! Can you avoid so many images all together? Consider using (…)

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JavaScript Event Factory

Jason — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 02:21:16 +0000

I have started a new project this weekend on Github that I’m calling the JavaScript Event Factory. I am mostly doing this so I can understand how to build messaging systems in JavaScript and it’s also my attempt to understand (…)

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JavaScript Patterns Textmate Bundle

Jason — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:59:32 +0000

Last night I started a new project that I’ll be adding to over time. It’s a Textmate Bundle that will create skeleton code for various popular JavaScript patterns such as Module, Singleton, and Sandbox. More will be added soon and (…)

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PackageStore

Jason — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:47:39 +0000

Today I started a new project named PackageStore which I expect to be iterating on over the next few weeks. The main purpose of this library is to provide an interface exactly like localStorage for setting/getting variables, but behind the (…)

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Konami Code in JavaScript

Jason — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 19:16:42 +0000

Others have already done this many times, but I thought it would be an interesting challenge this morning to implement the Konami code in such a way that you can attach a callback which will be fired only after the (…)

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HTML Compressor, Closure Compiler, and Ant.

Jason — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 12:00:44 +0000

The other day a friend of mine posted on Facebook that she was 10,000 days old. About an hour later, I had created the Days Since Birth utility. Still wanting to code more, I decided to make this project a (…)

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Python Function Timer Decorator

Jason — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 02:42:51 +0000

I find myself often timing how long code blocks take to execute so I’m able to discover bottlenecks and compare performance between iterations. A quick & simple way to do this is with a handy Python decorator. import time import (…)

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Automating Fixture Instantiation in Mocha using Async

Jason — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:43:41 +0000

My latest Node.JS project has been entirely test-driven and I always strive to write very simple & concise tests. Convoluted code in a test will be far less likely to be maintained. So when test driving my latest model, I (…)

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Self Updating Solr Stopwords

Jason — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 13:26:53 +0000

If you are looking to edge out a bit of performance from Solr one of the many things you can do is optimize your Solr Stopwords file. The more entries you have in this file, the less terms that end (…)

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Setting RailwayJS Environment

Jason — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 20:41:27 +0000

Recently I’ve been working with RailwayJS and integrating Mocha for testing. However, I wasn’t able to figure out how to explicitly set the environment. As such, it was always defaulting to “development” which is not ideal. For those wondering, you (…)

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