JavaScript Rules

After a long period of no posts due to personal issues, I’m back now and alive!
This time with a new post on YDN – Yahoo! Developer Network – blog: Performance on Yahoo! Search for Earth Day.
In this post I describe the performance case study of Yahoo! Search Earth Day campaign.

During this long off-post period, besides my day job, I’ve been doing some experiments, developing some tools and brainstorming lots of ideas, mostly related to performance and JavaScript. I do have some post drafts and will be publishing them soon. Here are a few topics I’m covering along this year:

• setTimeout minimum delay limit
• Prefetching CSS images
• Problems with gradients filters on IE links hover
• Flipping page direction RTL/LTR easily – RTLzr a Firefox extension
• JavaScript Interviews Exposed (series)
• Lazy Enhancement
• JavaScript video subtitle
• JavaScript video timeline marks
• Deleting a removed node from DOM

Stay tuned!

While working on my current project at Yahoo! I had the need to aggregate different search feeds, the requirement was to have a way to pass a param to the url like search=search_term, and this would be passed along to the the feeds and it would return results from all the feeds (obviously it had to be done in the front end only), I thought about adding more YQL requests to my app but I didn’t want to change the code since we were planning on having a re-factor of this part of the code, so super Yahoo! Pipes to the rescue, it was a really easy task and got more than I asked for, like filters and sorting… the example speaks for itself: pipe example you can clone it and play with it.

You can also check all the other cool examples created by Paul Donnelly http://pipes.yahoo.com/31337 or even check Pipes Blog for their latest updates.