weblog of a webdeveloper http://www.bitstorm.org/ en Copyright 2012 Edwin Martin edwin@bitstorm.org (Edwin Martin) Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:00:33 +0100 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:19:46 +0100 http://www.bitstorm.org/weblog/2012-1/Deferred_and_promise_in_jQuery.html Deferred and promise? What is this article about? Deferred and promise are part of jQuery since version 1.5 and they help in handling asynchronous functions like Ajax. Let's do a step back in... Sun, 9 Oct 2011 15:29:33 +0100 http://www.bitstorm.org/weblog/2011-10/Are_webdevelopers_elitists.html The last couple of days I was at the Fronteers conference in Amsterdam. These were amazing days. The Last speaker of the conference was Christian Heilmann. He had a very nice presentation... Sat, 12 Feb 2011 14:20:46 +0100 http://www.bitstorm.org/weblog/2011-2/How_to_use_the_jQuery_queue_function.html Last week I was at a meeting of the JavaScript user group Amsterdam.js and Michiel Kalkman talked about the sequencer he wrote. The idea is very good: it let's you write loosely coupled software... Thu, 9 Dec 2010 22:11:25 +0100 http://www.bitstorm.org/weblog/2010-12/Combat_spam_with_SPF.html You might think: "combatting spam is all good and nice, but what has it to do with webdevelopment?". Well, many webdevelopers maintain internet domains and that's exactly where SPF takes place.... Sun, 17 Oct 2010 18:36:06 +0100 http://www.bitstorm.org/weblog/2010-10/HTML5_Game_Jam.html Last week I participated in the HTML5 Game Jam, an initiative of SPIL games and Google. The contest was held in both SPIL games in Hilversum, a ten minute bike ride from my house, and... Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:06:05 +0100 http://www.bitstorm.org/weblog/2010-10/Fronteers_conference_2010.html Just like the years before, the Fonteers conference 2010 was a success. It was held in the beautifull Tuschinsky theatre in Amsterdam. The event started the evening before with the Code Jam, a... Sun, 8 Aug 2010 18:35:24 +0100 http://www.bitstorm.org/weblog/2010-8/Introduction_to_the_Google_Closure_Compiler.html Last year, on November 5th, Google released three JavaScript code libraries that are used in Google's impressive webapps like GMail and Google Maps. One part of the release is the Google... Sun, 13 Jun 2010 13:40:53 +0100 http://www.bitstorm.org/weblog/2010-6/Report_of_the_Dutch_PHP_Conference_2010.html For the third time, I visited the Dutch PHP Conference. Just as before, it was held in the RAI Convention Centre in Amsterdam. And as before, this two-day conference took place on Friday and... Wed, 9 Jun 2010 14:27:20 +0100 http://www.bitstorm.org/weblog/2010-6/Animate_anything_in_jQuery.html I've been using jQuery for three years now in several projects and I love it. One of the many reasons I like jQuery is its extensibility. It's very easy to write your own plugin, your own CSS... Mon, 10 May 2010 16:33:40 +0100 http://www.bitstorm.org/weblog/2010-5/Faster_websites_with_gzip_compression.html One of the best ways to improve the user experience of a website is to make sure it loads fast. In a test done by Mozilla, it also improves conversion. Research by Google also shows advantages....