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2Sep/108

Announcing Crow, a path-finding library in Javascript

Over the past few weeks I've been building out a clean and fast path-finding library in Javascript with a particular gaming site in mind, and I'm pretty happy with where it's at right now. If you're interested in at least one of: API design, Google Closure library, Google Closure compiler, or QUnit, then hit the jump for more. In the future, I'll cover Javascript (and object-oriented patterns), path-finding (breadth-first search, Dijkstra's algorithm, and A*), rake, games, and the embedded Sinatra+Bundler.

7Dec/080

DEPRECATED: Announcing: jQuery optimization races

Note...this site is down for now...

You don't have to understand it to see that it's at least a bit interesting, so check it out:

http://www.nutriscan.org/jquery_optimization/

It documents a bunch of different ways of doing similar things, and compares them in terms of performance. How much are you really losing by using the jQuery convenience method?

5Dec/080

Google Visualization API + jQuery

TODO: bring animations to charts in the Google Visualization API via jQuery to illustrate performance described in previous post.

Relevant link.

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