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“Steve Souders discusses the impact of website speed on users providing advice on creating high performance HTML5 applications.”

“When you work on the bleeding-edge, sometimes you’re going to get cut. The tech isn’t stable, things are buggy and may not conform to [a/the] standard—but the onPaste event isn’t a bleeding-edge technology. In fact, it’s been around since IE5. So why is it such a mess?

I spent a lot of time working with the paste event, recently, as I’ve been working on Hopper. What I found was a stunning lack of uniformity. Every single browser seems to have it’s own implementation of the event (and all of them aren’t great). I wanted to go over a few of the implementations and give you an idea of just what sort of things to look out for when using this non-standard event.”

“It’s simple in concept: You’re going to set up a well-scoped design problem and ask a candidate to solve it on the spot. It can take anywhere from 15-40 minutes depending on depth and complexity. It’s such a good technique because there’s no faking (like showing portfolio work from a big team effort) and when moderated well, it can simulate working together.”

“Welcome to Android Design, your place for learning how to design exceptional Android apps.”

“Ever wanted to grab the dominant color or color palette from an image?… Probably not. But now you can! Take a look at the Color Thief Demo Page to see it in action.”

“Joel Webber explains what it took for Google to port Angry Birds to Chrome/HTML5, the challenges and technical solutions used. “

“I’ve been working on this problem, specifically with a MVC JavaScript framework called Spine, and implementing what I’ve dubbed asynchronous user interfaces, or AUIs. The key to this is that interfaces should be completely non-blocking. Interactions should be resolved instantly; there should be no loading messages or spinners. Requests to the server should be decoupled from the interface.

The key thing to remember is that users don’t care about Ajax. They don’t give a damn if a request to the server is still pending. They don’t want loading messages. Users would just like to use your application without any interruptions.”

“I have lots of fun finding shortcuts in javascript, and logical operators can make for some interesting ways to act on a condition. In this article we’ll look at the logical operators &&(read: AND) and || (read: OR).”