JavaScript Benchmarks

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001023.html







The tests evaluate the performance of a browser’s implementation of JS language only and claims to be a real world, balanced and statistically sound testing suite.

Jeff put IE 7, Firefox 2, Opera 9.5 & Safari 3.0.4 through the benchmark to determine who had the best performance.

I don't trust this source well as IE sucks and we all know that. They should have considered Firefox 3

Remember The Milk for Gmail

http://www.rememberthemilk.com/services/gmail/#install

Remember The Milk for Gmail is a Firefox extension that allows you to manage your tasks in Gmail (complete, postpone, and edit tasks), add new tasks (and connect them with your emails, contacts, and Google Calendar events), automatically add tasks for starred messages or specific labels, and much more!




Didn't really turned out well when I tried. Also it doesn't work with Google Apps.

Beautiful Art of Work

http://debsofield.com/



A very nicely done personal portfolio

2007 Ajax Tools Usage Survey Results

Source: Ajaxian

"Prototype and Script.aculo.us are the only toolkits to maintain a lead over the past three years. However, over all there are no clear winners or losers as even the strongest incumbents (i.e., Prototype and Script.aculo.us) are starting too loose ground. Some frameworks initially popular have faded nearly completely out of the market (i.e., xajax and Rico ) while others have have sprung out of nowhere to become leading tookits (i.e., jQuery and Ext JS). The changes over the past three years are easy to see in the stack chart at the end of this blog, which shows the market share of the most popular toolkits - notice how they grow and shrink in market share. That means that the market remains immature."

About Amazon SimpleDB

http://www.satine.org/archives/2007/12/13/amazon-simpledb/

http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=342335011


"Amazon SimpleDB is a web service for running queries on structured data in real time. This service works in close conjunction with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), collectively providing the ability to store, process and query data sets in the cloud. These services are designed to make web-scale computing easier and more cost-effective for developers."

Amazing Firefox Extension

http://www.dejaclick.com/

I will suggest that everyone must install and test it once.

This tool can help us doing lots of things:

1. Creating test cases for our web application. We can save the unit tests like filling forms,checking some links etc. Everytime before making a release we can execute this script to perform all unit tests for us.
   
2. Saving website actions for future use
   
3. Saving tutorials exercise in Web browser
   

Faster mail with WAP

1. Google:- visit, http://www.google.com/xhtml?hl=en i.e. Google WAP site and you can search, access Gmail and Google News .

2. Yahoo:- Yahoo mail, Messenger, Cricket .etc. can be accessed by visiting http://wap.yahoo.com, and selecting your country.

3. msn:- msn mobile can be accessed at, http://mobile.live.com/pocketpc/default.aspx?mkt=en-US, where you can check your hotmail and live spaces .etc. Change mkt=xxx and access it in your language, e.g. mkt=es to access it in Spanish language.

4. Rediff:- rediff WAP site can accessed at http://mobile.rediff.com, where you can check your mail, news .etc.

Web Development Process

Nice graphics I found while browsing, demonstrating the Web application development process.

Really Simple History (RSH): Ajax history and bookmarking library

"Really Simple History is a lightweight JavaScript library for the management of bookmarking and browser history in Ajax/DHTML applications. RSH serializes application data in an internal JavaScript cache so that bookmarks and the back button can be used to return your application to an earlier state."

http://code.google.com/p/reallysimplehistory/


It reads like the best solution for Ajax browser history management. We had a lot of problem while implementing history management in last project.