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This morning, I would like to do a shout out to a blog that I have been absolutely loving the content on for a while now. Lessons Learned by Eric Ries has some great content inspired by his experiences with the Customer Development process and Lean Development. I’m a big fan of these processes for startups. If I could resyndicate all of his content on my blog and just add “Yeah, what he said”, I would.
Map Reduce in the browser
Via Ajaxian:
Ilya Grigorik of Igvita has proposed and built a collaborative Map Reduce system in JavaScript that allows browsers to dive in and use their CPU to do some things.
Juicer: Package your JavaScript and CSS
Via Ajaxian:
Christian Johansen has released Juicer a very nice Sprocket-esque tool for packaging and managing your JavaScript AND your CSS.
It has taken all of the best practices and put them in one tool, including:
- resolve dependencies for JavaScripts and CSS files
- combine files
- add cache busters to URLs inside CSS files
- cycle asset hosts for URLs in CSS files
- minify files (currently only with YUI Compressor, later others as well)
- check syntax of JavaScripts with JsLint before they’re minifyed
The cache buster feature is quite cool. Take a look at the output of these commands:
Bricks and Mortar Retailers in Australia are winning the online battle
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Sorry to be gloomy, but this downturn will get worse: Kohler
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Skilled worker crisis fades as oversupply looms
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Nicole Sullivan’s Object Oriented CSS
Nicole Sullivan’s Object Oriented CSS: Sometimes I’m so focused on JavaScript that it becomes a bit of a hammer for me that I try to use it on all problems. I forget about the power of CSS and what it can do. I recently met Nicole…
