http://www.julienlecomte.net/blog Web Development and Operating System Programming Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:25:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en TextMate has gained a lot of traction in the past few years, especially among web developers. Ruby developers swear by it for some reason. I don't have MacOS X at home so I don't use TextMate. Instead, my favorite text editor is gedit, the official text editor of the GNOME ... http://www.julienlecomte.net/blog/2008/04/46/ Last night, I downloaded and installed Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) Release Candidate on my laptop (a HP dv2000 with a dual core AMD64 2.8GHz CPU and 2GB RAM) I had used Ubuntu in the past (versions 7.04 and 7.10) on that same machine, but finally turned to Windows Vista because ... http://www.julienlecomte.net/blog/2008/04/45/ Douglas Crockford just published his first book titled JavaScript: The Good Parts. After reading this book, some of you may be left with the impression that Douglas is always complaining about some aspect of this very popular programming language. However, having been a user of the JavaScript language for about ... http://www.julienlecomte.net/blog/2008/04/44/ This new version of the compressor fixes a few bugs and implements a few additional micro optimizations. Please refer to the CHANGELOG file for a complete list of changes, and don't hesitate to report any issue you may experience with this version of the YUI Compressor. Download version 2.3 of the ... http://www.julienlecomte.net/blog/2008/01/42/ I wish all of you a happy new year from beautiful Rio de Janeiro! I'm still enjoying a hot (95F) and humid weather before heading back to the US in a few days. May 2008 bring you happiness and success in all of your endeavors. Cheers! http://www.julienlecomte.net/blog/2008/01/40/ A few days ago, I gave a talk at Yahoo! about High Performance Ajax Applications. Eric Miraglia, from the YUI team, and Ricky Montalvo, from the Yahoo! Developer Network, were kind enough to shoot the video, edit it, and put it on the YUI Blog. In this talk, I cover ... http://www.julienlecomte.net/blog/2007/12/39/ The innerHTML property is extremely popular because it provides a simple way to completely replace the contents of an HTML element. Another way to do that is to use the DOM Level 2 API (removeChild, createElement, appendChild) but using innerHTML is by far the easiest and most efficient way to ... http://www.julienlecomte.net/blog/2007/12/38/ YUI 2.4.0, which was just released today, comes with a minor update to its history library. To celebrate this new release, I thought I would write a short article demonstrating how to use the YUI Browser History Manager to add back button and bookmarking support to a DHTML slide show. Let's ... http://www.julienlecomte.net/blog/2007/12/37/ The mashup problem According to my coworker Douglas Crockford, Mashups are the most interesting advancement in software development in decades. They are also unsafe in the current generation of browsers. Lately, Douglas has been spending some time convincing the main browser vendors that mashups need to be made safe, wrote a ... http://www.julienlecomte.net/blog/2007/11/31/ Internet Explorer plays a little click sound when the location of a page changes. This is a great usability feature as it lets the user know that something is happening. However, this little click sound can become really annoying with web applications that make extensive use of iframes. For example, ... http://www.julienlecomte.net/blog/2007/11/30/