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O'Reilly Answers: Clever Hacks. Creative Ideas. Innovative Solutions.

• How to Load JavaScript Wisely to Speed Up Web Pages
• Optimize JavaScript to Speed Up Web Pages
• Convert JavaScript Behavior to CSS to Speed Up Web Pages
• How to display new blocks of text in new colors through JavaScript
• What are my options when choosing a JavaScript framework?
• How to create a calendar date picker with JavaScript
• How to create a new window with JavaScript
• How to bring a window to the front with JavaScript
• How to communicate with a new window using JavaScript
• How to communicate back to the main window with JavaScript

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JavaScript News & Commentary

Barcode Scanner Support for Flex

By Jan Poehland
November 5, 2009

I recently came across an interesting problem when we had to access barcode scanners from Flex applications. The scanners came in different models but all were connected to the computer via serial port or USB (Serial2USB). Now, how do you...

jQuery and AIR - Moving from web page to application (3)

By Raymond Camden
November 5, 2009

The third part of my series on creating a jQuery AIR game - Hangman. In this entry I discuss some architecture changes I made to the JavaScript and some new database support.

Announcing O'Reilly Answers - Clever Hacks. Creative Ideas. Innovative Solutions.

By Allen Noren
November 4, 2009

We're launching the beta of O'Reilly Answers, and I'm inviting you to be part of it. In brief, O'Reilly Answers is a community site for sharing knowledge, asking questions, and providing answers that brings together our customers, authors, editors, conference speakers, and Foo (Friends of O'Reilly). O'Reilly is at the center of an amazing exchange of knowledge sharing and idea generation, and we want you to join us in changing the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators.

Four short links: 29 October 2009

By Nat Torkington
October 29, 2009

Julie Learns to Program -- blog from our own Julie Steele as she learns her first programming language. The point is: it’s in me. I wasn’t sure that is was, and now I know—it is. And what, exactly, is “it”? It is the bug. It is the combination of native curiosity and stubbornness that made me play around with...

jQuery FTW (October 17)

By Raymond Camden
October 17, 2009

Yet another entry in my jQuery FTW series, highlighting interesting and cool jQuery-related links.

Four short links: 15 October 2009

By Nat Torkington
October 15, 2009

Open Access Week -- world-wide, dedicated to raising awareness of open access to research. (via Creative Commons Aotearoa). 1Mb Broadband Access Becomes Legal Right -- Starting next July, every person in Finland will have the right to a one-megabit broadband connection. The Elements of Statistical Learning 2ed -- classic book (I have the 1st edition) that is now available...

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