Today, I stumbled upon a very annoying page. It had an overlay that simply had no options to close it. I could follow the instructions on the pop-up and fill out the 5 minute survey to get to the underlying page, or simply turn off JavaScript. I did the later. Although JavaScript functionality is pretty …
Monthly Archives: April 2009
Professional Development Environments
In a professional setting, you’ll need at least 3 environments, a development environment, a testing environment, and the live environment (when the product gets released). The development environment is the environment in which code gets developed. It is the scratch pad, drawing board, sandbox, and etc. The development environment is the birth place and weeding …
Optimize code or cache?
Should we optimize the code so it loads faster, or should we cache it so that it loads faster? The question really shouldn’t be which one you should do, but in what order you should do it. To properly explain the difference, I’ll have to first clarify what I mean by code optimization and caching. …