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Entries for November, 2009

Musings on SPDY Protocol

So, yet another week, and another fairly large announcement from Google. They’ve been coming pretty fast and furious lately – the open-sourcing of both Closure and Chrome OS are two fairly recent developments. However, the one this post will focus on is the announcement that Google is working on a new application-level protocol, dubbed SPDY. [...]

Google Closure

Google just open sourced Closure, their robust JavaScript library. Closure is used in a variety of Google products, notably GMail and Google Docs. I had a chance to play with it for a few minutes, and I’m posting my first impressions. Google Closure is a fairly complete JavaScript framework. In that sense, it duplicates a [...]

jQuery UI ThemeRoller Should be Distributed

I use jQuery UI a lot. I’ve used it at work on internal projects, I’ve used it on some pages in ferretarmy.com, and it’s integral to blaqdesign.com. It’s a great set of rich UI controls and behaviors that work well and are easily integrated into a webpage. I can’t say enough about the toolset. However, [...]