http://mwhenry.com/blog A blog by Matt Henry Fri, 02 Jul 2010 23:26:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://mwhenry.com/blog/2009/06/links-for-june-the-second-2009/ http://mwhenry.com/blog/2009/06/links-for-june-the-second-2009/#comments Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:14:22 +0000 Matt Henry http://mwhenry.com/?p=47

1 line CSS Grid Framework — Distilling a CSS framework into one line is an interesting experiment, in that it shows essentially what all of the other (bigger than one line) frameworks are doing. Also, if you look at the markup of a site that was built using it, it serves as a pretty good reductio ad absurdum against CSS frameworks.

jQuery Performance Rules — A useful collection of best practices that can speed up your jQuery code by non-trivial amounts. I’ll admit that I’m often guilty of sticking the bulk of my code inside of $(function(){...}).

jQuery: Inline caching for selectors — If you’re taking the advice of the article linked above and caching your jQuery objects, take a look at this technique for keeping those cached objects available throughout your app without polluting the global namespace (hint: it uses closures).

Procs And Blocks And Anonymous Functions — Speaking of closures, this is a decent rundown of the various uses of closures in Ruby.

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