Web Application Development Tips, Tricks and Techniques
JavaScript best practices II
Feb 22nd
We’ve seen some basic recommendations we should all follow when writing JavaScript. Now let’s go through some more:
JavaScript best practices I
Jan 31st
Now that we’ve seen the basic JavaScript concepts, we’ll go through some recommendations to make a good code. These are some practices that should be followed if you want to make a readable and maintainable code. It is based on my knowledge and experience of JavaScript over several years of practical experience:
GUI Testing
Oct 4th
A very important thing you must do before releasing your web application into the wild is some sort of Graphical User Interface Testing. This kind of testing ensures that the interfaces between the client and servers execute in tandem. It is an important factor that these connections or interfaces work seamlessly without any failure or degradation in performance of speed and accuracy. The testing should also check for appropriate error messages. So, you must design these tests not only to check whether your application works as expected, but also to ensure that the performance is good enough.
Browser comparisons
Oct 15th
More comparisons among browsers… Six Revisions has performed some tests to the most important browsers.
The tools used to perform these tests are:
- SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark
- SlickSpeed (jQuery values reported)
- Numion stopwatch
- CSS Rendering Benchmark
- Resource Monitor
And this is the result they came up with:
Tired of IE’s issues? Turn it into Google Chrome
Oct 8th
As web programmers, we’ve all dealed with IE’s incompatibility issues and its sluggishness, and I can assure that 99% of all of us are tired of how stubborn Microsoft is about not implementing web standards and trying to enforce its own private ways of doing things (although with the release of Internet Explorer 8 Microsoft has showed a bit of effort in trying to be more standards compliant). How much time have we wasted on writing workarounds for IE for code that works seamlessly in other browsers?
Well, Google seems to be worried about this as well, and now gives us one more possibility to solve the problem: turn Internet Explorer into Google Chrome.
My name is Oliver Mezquita Prieto, and I'm a Software Engineer focused on web application development, both serverside and clientside, using ASP.NET technology.
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