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Ajaxian May 27 10
Scato Eggen, in honor of Towel Day in the Netherlands, has released an open source framework called towel.js.
towel.js is an extension for Mootools, designed to make event-based code easier to write and even more important: easier to read.
At the hart of towel.js is a modular helper system called towel, including two helpers called UI and [...] Full story...
Michael Mahemoff writes: To be effective, Rails cache sweepers need to be more fully understood. They know no standard, so you must employ art.
Node.js employs an event-driven architecture and a non-blocking I/O model, and it provides some blindingly fast performance to some types of data-intensive Web apps.
HP continues to divulge bits and pieces of a road map for the ill-starred and nearly-orphaned webOS. The company has followed up its December plan to release webOS mobile platform and development tools with a proposed timeline, with a full release set before year’s end.
Shim was developed within the Boston Globe’s media lab as a way to study how Web sites look on various devices and browsers.
Facebook Software Engineer and HipHop for PHP team member Jason Evans provides details on Facebook’s move to a new high-performance PHP virtual machine.