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Lightning Rounds at The Ajax Experience

By Mark Gharibian - Posted on September 30th, 2008
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We had a great session today that was comprised of 10 “lightning rounds” each lasting about 5 minutes.

Topics included:

  1. Smushit.com – a web based tool that automates image optimization. You specify a URL, or batch upload images and smushit can greatly reduce the file size of your images without sacrificing any quality. A Firefox extension also exists to allow you to easily optimize the images on any page you visit.
  2. Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 – the latest web development tool from Adobe, which was just recently released. You can expect to see some great new features in this version, including:
    •    Workspace customization – coder, designer, compact preset workspaces
    •    JavaScript intellisense and validation, including advanced intellisense that works with any JavaScript library or custom JavaScript classes and objects.
    •    Live Code view – let’s you see changes to the document in real-time as you interact with it.
  3. Comet – discussed technique for Ajax push asynchronous message delivery from the server to the client
  4. Firebug. Enough said, if you don’t know what it is, go here.
  5. Making web apps faster – Steve Souders discussed manual vs. programmatic scripting to time web pages using Episodes, a proposed framework. Read more about Episodes.
  6. Hacking Netflix – Netflix API to be released soon (this week), more info will be available at:
  7. Interviewing JavaScript Gurus.
  8. 280 Slides / Objective-J , a strict superset of JavaScript
  9. shiftspace.org – client-side JS and interface
  10. milescript.org – new language that compiles to JavaScript, intended for large scale (enterprise) JavaScript solutions.