Google Analytics is great to tracking your site traffic. I started out using Statcounter.com to track my site visits, but over the years i’ve wanted more information so I switched over to using Google Analytics. Google provides an excellent dashboard to monitor and dig into your sites traffic and drill down the information to see [...]
December 9, 2009
We all notice when a web app is acting a big sluggish. What is causing it to be so slow?Why is it not responding as fast as it should? These are the kinds of issues that keep developers up at night. To help solve this problem, Google is launching Speed Tracer, a new tool for the Google [...]
November 10, 2009
Closure Compiler is a JavaScript optimizer that compiles web apps down into compact, high-performance JavaScript code. The compiler removes dead code, then rewrites and minimizes what’s left so that it will run fast on browsers’ JavaScript engines. The compiler also checks syntax, variable references, and types, and warns about other common JavaScript pitfalls. These checks [...]
November 9, 2009
I remember when the whole Ajax thing kicked in and JavaScript developers looked at Gmail, Gmaps, and the like and thought “I wonder what powers that?” Well, the power comes from Closure a library and set of tools that the great JS hackers built over time as they created the applications at scale. As soon as I [...]
December 14, 2009
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