I have planned originally to publish links to interesting articles and websites on daily basis. I have a title for such posts with an unoriginal name: "Daily Links". With the blog more than 2 months old I have gained some experience and insights, one of which is that I just can’t publish new links every day. I simply don’t go through enough links to have a daily list. “Daily Links” name needs to change.
I see two possibilities – aim to publish links on (by) weekly basis, or publish one link at a time but go deeper into what an article or website is about. I'm leaning towards the first solution and that's what I was doing anyway. I'm going to rename the posts. I guess "Weekly Links" would be closer to the truth:) , but I want it to be original. I've came up with "Turns of liquid maze". I will let you all decide what that means for you :) Maybe sometime in the future when I won't have anything to write about I will go into what it means for me.
If you have critique of the name, or have any ideas why “Turns of liquid maze” is inappropriate, please feel free to share them and I will take your advice under consideration.
Without further ado.
Web development
- On having layout - An article that goes deep into how IE rendering engine works, why IE often incorrectly handles CSS and possible ways to work around the problem. It provides a very good foundation for developing IE-compliant web pages that don't behave unexpectedly. (via http://dean.edwards.name/weblog/2005/06/layout/)
- JavaScript Benchmarking (XSLT) - XSLT performance is analyzed in IE and Mozilla Firefox. IE wins easily even using an older version of MSXML. On the side note using pure JavaScript to generate HTML and manually inserting it into web page is much faster than XSLT in Mozilla, but slightly slower in IE.
- Benchmark – style vs. classname - Another article on web browser performance. Changing element's className is faster than actually going in and changing element's style.someThing. The only exception is Safari, which likes style change better than className change.
- JSAN - JavaScript Archive Network. Repository for OpenSource JavaScript code. It contains a lot of JavaScript code so it's a good place to start looking for something you might need.
- Best Practices: Implementing JavaScript for rich internet applications - A list of JavaScript development practices. All of them are common sense, but having them in front of your eyes will probably lower chance of not following them (you always follow common sense anyway, right?:) ) (via http://domscripting.webstandards.org/?p=19)
- Migrate apps from IE to Mozilla - A list and description of differences between IE and Mozilla DOM API. There are a lot of them and this article touches on most of them (I'm not sure if anybody can describe them all. There are just too many.) The article should be of interest to any web developer, not only those migrating from IE to Mozilla.
.NET
- Castle release (Download) - Old news by now, but still important and worth mentioning. A lot of bugs were fixed and some interesting features introduced.